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minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 天前how would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 天前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.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 天前Yeah, 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-up2·2 天前imagine having to explain at the vampires anonymous meeting that you got it by cleaning out your bird feeder.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 天前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.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 天前…do we know that? maybe vampires just have really bad dental hygiene
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 天前I think vampirism being a bloodborn pathogen is the consensus.
how would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
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