The increasing demand for cosmetic procedures like Botox injections, dermal fillers and fat-dissolving treatments at popular medical spas has raised growing alarm about risky care from unlicensed providers.A patchwork of state rules governing these facilities are often poorly enforced, leaving consumers more vulnerable to infection and potentially disfiguring and even life-threatening consequences, experts say.
"The vast majority are people doing it illegally and they have no idea what they are doing," said Kate Dee, physician-owner of Glow Medispa in Washington state and author of anat a New Mexico med spa, which were the first reported cases of people contracting the virus through cosmetic injections.not approved by the Food and Drug Administration resulting in scarring and dangerous infections.