Miscellaneous vampires to imagine

[ilzolende]

• A vampire who can drink animal blood and has, after confirming vampires can't get or transmit prion diseases, gone after a lot of deer with chronic wasting disease.
• Vampires who for a while thought they could only have human blood, but eventually determined they could ingest anything safe to give to a healthy human intravenously. These days they have a lot of saline solution. (Inspired by this paper.)
• A vampire who gives their victims iron infusions and erythropoiesis-stimulating medications after feeding, thus replacing the usual side effects with a different, weirder set of side effects.

Comments

[light_heat]

Why can't the first vampire get or transmit prion diseases?

[ilzolende]

I'm not sure, but plenty of vampires seem to not get diseases that you'd expect them to get from drinking people's blood without pre-screening.

[light_heat]

Huh, yeah.

...Consider this in the context of HIV and the way pop culture treats vampires as relating to transgressive or threatening sexuality.