Stamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoNot the same mansh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1403arrow-down116
arrow-up1387arrow-down1imageNot the same mansh.itjust.worksStamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoi’m aware, but we’ve already established that it wasn’t swallows.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoFair enough. I still feel like vampire bats might be a threat. Also, we don’t know what reservoirs harbor vampirism. Perhaps sparrows are carriers.
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-up2·2 days 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-up2·1 day ago…do we know that? maybe vampires just have really bad dental hygiene
i’m aware, but we’ve already established that it wasn’t swallows.
Fair enough. I still feel like vampire bats might be a threat. Also, we don’t know what reservoirs harbor vampirism. Perhaps sparrows are carriers.
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