> Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 03:58 PM 5/11/04, Deborah Harrell wrote:
> >Perhaps I should have written what it made me
> >think of: a short story or article about how
> vampires
> >are the result of a viral infection... :)
> It's been done . . .
Yes, I found that idea fascinating -- it tied in
nicely with the notion that certain medical conditions
have lead to various myths and legends. Frex
werewolves (and perhaps partially vampires) are
thought by some researchers to have been inspired by
sufferers of a type of porphyria; symptoms include
skin that blisters with sun exposure,
irrational/violent behavior, an appetite for
redmeat/blood (there's a defect in heme metabolism),
and severe abdominal pain that can cause the patient
to writhe about in agony.
Debbi
whose younger brother parodied "Yesterday" with
"Leprosy" ('I'm not half the man I used to be' etc. --
sick, but funny; Hansen's disease is now thankfully
controllable and quite rare)
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