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At least three women were infected with HIV during a procedure known as a “vampire facial” at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico in the first cases of the virus being transmitted during a cosmetic injection, according to reports. The findings were announced in a report released Thursday by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. In the first case a female client of the spa was evaluated in 2018 after testing positive for HIV. The woman, between 40 and 50 years old, said she hadn’t injected drugs, did not have any recent blood transfusions and had no sexual contact other than with her curre…