Vampires are immortal, living undead and all that.  What happens when I vampire drinks the blood of someone with HIV, hepatitis, Ebola or the bubonic plague?  These are nasty, blood-born pathogens that are, in most cases, fatal.  So, does the vampire die, suffer endlessly with symptoms, or just shake it off?\n\nWow, this question is both gross and insensitive!
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I would say that they would feel the effects short term but shake it off after their next fresh blood fix. Many vampire stories go on about vampires drinking the blood of intoxicated people so that they can share in the drug/alcohol. And the most famous account of vampirism: "Interview With A Vampire", Lestat is drained of blood and therefore becomes week and vulnerable until he has a fresh supply of human blood. So, it supports the idea that whilst vampires cannot die again (accept with the old sunlight/stake through the heart thing) but they can become suceptable to ailments of the blood.\n\nOh and to the person who called you an idiot: you are aware that this question was posted within a mythological context? We are talking about the fictional representation of vampires here.
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I had blood poisoning and didn't know it til'I went to E.R..The doc pressed on my lymph nodes at top of my leg and they hurt like hell.You have an infection.Go right now to the E.R.!
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First off hiv needs blood.  Just simply touching something doesn't transfer the disease, they has to be broken skin and blood transfer, and then the one receiving has to have broken skin and receive the transfer on that area.  The toothbrush thing I believe was referring to people (eeewwww) that would brush their teeth and then had the brush, right then to their partner or someone else.\nIf you get infected body fluids on your person, in a faily short period of time, last time I heard it lived around 30 second, touched a cut or a orface then ya, you could, maybe get it, but that's alot of if's and maybe's.  If the disease spread that easily, we would all have it by now.  The thing I don't understand is what about mosquitoes?  They have the infected material, in their bodies, and move to the next person?  If I was to worry about something, that would be it.
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HIV is a bloodborne, fluid pathogen, That means there must be an exchange of body fluid. example the person with the infection bit u and broke the skin. HIV while the majority of the virus is in the blood stream can and is spread thru other body fluids such as semen, saliva and vaginal fluids of course the other person must have abrasions, cuts, tears in order for the virus to enter their body. Remember even minute microscopic abrasion can let the virus enter your body.\n\nHope that helps and perhaps brings you some peace of mind.\nbest of luck.
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Ok, I'm not one to talk sh** here, but here we go...\nFeces goes through your intestines which have bacteria in them to help break down food. The kind in your intestines, stay in your intestines, and help to maintain your health. NOW- When those bacteria get into any other part of your bod, it's very bad because they release toxins, and other stuff into you that make you quite ill. I mean we naturally have E-coli in our intestines, but it's fatal if you have an E-coli infection. \n\nUrine on the other hand is sterile. You can drink it, but I don't know why on earth you would. Just because its sterile meaning without bacteria and germs, doens't mean that it doesn't still have other toxins and body waste in it. So, uh yuck, don't do it. \n\nAlways, always, always wash your hands after handling body waste. Diseases and other illnesses can still be passed on even if it was only urine...like I said it still has bad stuff in it. \n\nAnd as for the pig thing...I don't know why they weren't sick.
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Hello,\n\nThat is great that you are still friends with  HIV person most people would just distant themselves from them.\n\nHiv is bloodborne, which means they has to be ablood to blood contact. \n\nAs far as i know like everyday contact it isnt possible to be infected with hiv, remember hiv dosent survive well in the air and it also means that the more it is being exposed in the air, the weaker it gets and also harder for it to infect a non-hiv person. \n\nI also know that it cannot survive in water as well and also when a hiv blood is dried up completely its harmless as far as i know. \n\nThis are things taht you cannot catch hiv from,\n\nA mosquito bite \nA toilet \nSharing food or utensils \nHugging \nTaking care of someone with AIDS \nKissing \nA swimming pool \nGiving blood \nSneezing or coughing \nSpitting \nSharing makeup \n\nHope this gives you some peace of mind and you do have the right to be paranoid because i have known some people get extremely paranoid and showing some symptoms but because they think alot it is just stress nothing more. \n\nTake care and Thank you
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http://www.emmadavies.net/vampire/  That is a vampire name generator.  Gives you the name and what it means.  Have fun!
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well, believe it or not, but the symptoms you suggest sounds kinda like the disease Porphyria. The kooky part of this all is that this disease is what is said to be the cause of real life vampirism. I know, sounds crazy, but run with this a minute. \n\nThere is a type of Porphyria known as erythropoietic porphyrias which, as wikipedia says "primarily affect the skin, causing photosensitivity (photodermatitis), blisters, necrosis of the skin and gums, itching, and swelling, and increased hair growth on areas such as the forehead." \n\nI don't know if this is at all what you have, but if you have these other symptoms, perhaps you should ask the doctor for a test.\n\nThey say that it can be treated with a change in diet for mild cases. \n\nBesides, if you really do believe you are allergic to the sun, that sure sounds like some sort of vampirism type illness. Probably should go get checked out by a doctor (primarily a determintologist).\n\nGood luck!
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I've always seen them as romantic immortals. Vampire spells out: sex, blood, romance, immortality, evil and secrets, for me.\n\nThat goes for both real and movie/fiction book vampires.
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Vampires are not always immortal, and they don't do this for money like a hooker.  Get out of the house more - check into the goth scene if you wanna meet REAL vampires (people with a blood fetish)
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Actually, nothing happens to a person w/ HIV......  It's only when it turns into full-blown AIDS that the body's immune system is compromised, then the person could get sick and die from any one of a zillion diseases, because the body cannot fight them off.
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Vampires are real on many different levels. \n\nWhen you talk about vampires, most people think of blood suckers. There most certainly are blood vampires.\n\nI've only ever drank my own blood; sucking on a wound, or laying on my back with a bloody nose. Nose blood; not the greatest, but I wasn't totally grossed out. Wound blood; not so bad. So even as a complete non-vampire, I can't claim that I regard human blood as a completely disgusting thing to drink.\n\nAs for the vampires I've met, drinking blood is an amazing and wonderful thing. It's all about that life force energy, and blood carries that energy. They say that just reaching out and draining someone of their energy is the greatest high, but drinking blood adds a thrill of sensuality. Feeling as it enters their mouth, still warm. Swallowing, physically taking the life-force inside of them. Tasting someone from the inside. They talk about it as a real thrill. Amazingly sensual.\n\nAlso, AB negative blood is supposedly the tastiest. It's a little sweeter than most blood. They say that an AB negative diabetic is like a candy apple.\n\nMany people drain those around them of life force energy, but there are some who can do it purposefully. They have the ability to reach out and drain a person's energy, and some are better at it then others. Some can contact you from far away in the vision realm after having looked you in the eyes and made a karmic connection, and take your energy. But the best is when they can just reach out and take it, draining a person until they fall on the floor. They say it's far better than caffeine. These are the energy vampires.\n\nI have a good friend who can do that. She's the only energy vampire I know who uses her power for good. She takes people's headaches. She also has an amazing ability to sense energies, making her one of the most powerful witches I know (I know a lot of witches who claim to be powerful, but very few who actually are). I have known her for many years and we are very close friends.\n\nOne time it was the dead of winter, she was sitting next to a window, and she felt someone looking at her. She looked and there was someone dressed in black with no color in their body sitting across the road, intently looking at her. She looked down for no more than five seconds, looked up again, and he was sitting on her side of the road, still intently looking at her. He was not dressed for the cold, but was not shivering at all. She looked down again, and looked up and he was sitting 10 feet from the window. Just intense calm looking at her. She immediately closed the blinds realizing that she had just had an encounter with a real vampire, although she recognized him as a kindred spirit. Had she left the blinds open, there is no telling what could have happened to her. \n\nIt probably wasn't a vampire like Dracula or what we see from Hollywood, but it was definitely something from outside of our mundane existence. So there might be another kind of vampire out there also. The vampires of myth and legend might be roaming the earth after all
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There are other diseases that mosquitos transmit, but TB, AIDS, and Herpes are not among them.  \n\nWhen the mosquito "bites" she injects a certain saliva under the skin to prevent clotting the blood.  If the blood clotted, it would clog her feeding tube.  After taking her blood meal, her feeding tube is wiped clean of blood and she rests for a few hours to digest it, thereby allowing germs on the tube to die.  \n\nMalaria, dengue fever, and west nile are carried because they actually develop inside the mosquito.  The parasite Plasmodium (for malaria) has a host inside the human, and another host inside the mosquito.  (I can send you the whole biology chapter if you want it.)  The parasite develops inside the mosquito and is then sent to the salivary glands, where it is passed on to the next human in that saliva -- about 8 hours after biting the first malaria-infected human.  \n\nAt this time, AIDS has not developed into a disease that can use mosquitos as hosts.  It can be sexually transmitted, because there are virus cells in the reproductive fluids and there are always small abrasions made during a sexual act which allows these virus cells to pass into the blood stream.  It can be transmitted by blood transfusion, or by using an injection needle more than one as is common among stoned drug users.  \n\nHowever, AIDS does not (yet) have the ability in its life cycle to develop inside a mosquito and migrate to the salivary glands so as to infect the next person.  It is unlikely that it will, because it is a virus and not a living parasite; also it is a mammalian disease and would have no effect on insect cells.  If AIDS were passed by mosquitos, using the number of malaria infections every year and the impossiblity of buy medication for either disease, everyone in Africa would have been dead for almost a century as the disease passed.  \n\nI hope that this answers some of your questions, and the implied worry, about the possible diseases passed by the mosquitos.  If you want more information just contact me!
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Of course I believe in Vampires. I've always have. My friends call me a freak for thinking that Vampires are real...but I could give a sh*t. Lol. I love anything that has to do with Vampires.
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A vampire creeps up to Naskomania, but instead of drinking his blood, he uses an axe to chop him up into thousands of tiny pieces and flushes them down the toilet on live TV. \nThe whole world cheers as they know they will be spared the horror of ever having to read another one of Naskomania's retarded attempts at humour, and they agree to pay the vampire monthly.
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I don not think she is a vampire, if you look at her carefully you can see that she is obvioulsy a zombie. Vampires are usually attractive and well preserved. : )
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Drugs? What are YOU smoking, pal?\n\nLycanthropy is an actual disease (genetic, I think) which causes bizarre hair growth giving the appearance of a beast. As with most genetic conditions, it was often accompanied by disturbing mental conditions, and between the unusual look and the unusual behavior, an entire folklore grew up around it.\n\nVampires were similar ... It's possible for humans to develop an addiction to human blood, and in the ancient world, when human sacrifice was more common, this was known to occur from time to time. As with any addiction, it led to killings for the sake of blood consumption.\n\nThough the state of the world has changed, the idea that "humans" (or "undead humans") prowl from place to place, killing and drinking human blood, is so well rooted in human history that it's passed from history to folktale, folktale to legend, and finally from legend to myth.\n\nSo did they really exist? Yes, basically. But don't trust "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for accurate information.