Stamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoNot the same mansh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1407arrow-down116
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minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThey wouldn’t directly. They’d have to be bitten by something else that acquires vampirism from them and transfers it to another host, like malaria.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYeah, I think that’s how reservoirs work, but I’m not a public health expert. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoimagine having to explain at the vampires anonymous meeting that you got it by cleaning out your bird feeder.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI think you’d have to at least have an open wound and come into contact with fresh blood since it’s a bloodborn pathogen.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months ago…do we know that? maybe vampires just have really bad dental hygiene
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI think vampirism being a bloodborn pathogen is the consensus.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYeah, as long as it’s bloodborn.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoMaybe. Further study is definitely needed.
They wouldn’t directly. They’d have to be bitten by something else that acquires vampirism from them and transfers it to another host, like malaria.
latent vampirism…
Yeah, I think that’s how reservoirs work, but I’m not a public health expert.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir
imagine having to explain at the vampires anonymous meeting that you got it by cleaning out your bird feeder.
I think you’d have to at least have an open wound and come into contact with fresh blood since it’s a bloodborn pathogen.
…do we know that? maybe vampires just have really bad dental hygiene
I think vampirism being a bloodborn pathogen is the consensus.
could be a fungal infection
Yeah, as long as it’s bloodborn.
Maybe. Further study is definitely needed.