Stamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoNot the same mansh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1402arrow-down116
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minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agohow would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days 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-up2·1 day 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-up2·1 day 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-up2·1 day 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-up2·22 hours ago…do we know that? maybe vampires just have really bad dental hygiene
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 hours agoI 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