‘It’s really embarrassing’: Woman contracted herpes at nail salon due to poor hygiene practices, lawsuit claims

PDX Nails herpes

A woman contracted herpes during a June 2023 manicure at PDX Nails in Portland, Oregon, a lawsuit claims. (KPTV/YouTube)

A woman claims in a recently filed lawsuit that she contracted herpes at a salon while receiving an acrylic nail manicure.

It allegedly happened June 1, 2023, at PDX Nails, located in Portland, Oregon, according to the lawsuit obtained by Law&Crime. The lawsuit, which is seeking $1.75 million and was filed March 5 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges that the nail technician did not wear gloves and stored drill bits in an Altoids mints tin box.

The woman, a 23-year-old identified in the lawsuit as “S.R.”, allegedly began to feel ill and had swelling around two fingers immediately after the manicure. By June 5, blisters began forming around her fingers so she decided to go to an urgent clinic where staff swabbed the blisters. A test came back positive for genital herpes, the lawsuit said. The woman did not have herpes before going to the salon, the lawsuit states.

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