Modern Vampires. People who drink human or animal blood

In My Humble Opinion
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Was just watching a program on cable about a girl who drinks up to 30 litres of blood a week.

She buys mainly frozen animal blood but she did have a trusted donor who didnt mind her sucking his blood.

Im sure we hav all tasted our own blood at one time or other many moons ago. I have nothing against anyone wanting to do it at all. I am however not convinced that certain people are addicted to blood. Perhaps mentally, who knows but I seriously doubt it. Crack cocaine is only physically addictive to few people. It and meth are 2 drugs I know that can ruin your life within a year. Mentally super addictive. Even though heroin is a drug that is very physically addictive, it has nothing on crack for the mental addiction that stops you thinking of anything that doesnt get the next fix

The main reason I posted this was I hoped maybe a doctor or expert in blood borne diseases like hep and HIV would read this

What I really want to know?Hep C for instance. 20 yrs ago the medical community thought it could be transmitted through any body fluids such as saliva or sperm. Recent studies have showed that sex doesnt spread hep c in monogamous heterosexual relationships usually unless there is anal sex involved. I doubt that myself as plenty of females partake in anal these days.

I had Hep C myself but I got it through IV drug use long time ago. Im free of it now after successful treatment 5yr ago

The whole point of this thread was I wanted to ask a question. Could a modern vamp, drinking blood actually be able to contract hep c or HIV??? My understanding was both these virus’ were blood to blood transmission only?? So if i drank a friends blood,I couldnt get HIV or Hep C unless I had a stomach ulcer or bleedy gums. Then the “foreign blood” could somehow mix??? The acids in stomach kill most bacteria but I dont know about how viruses survive in that extreme enviroment. Anyone an expert in this field???

Cheers in advance

Drew

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I caught hep c through rinsing a syringe out with water in a kettle that an infected person had rinsed theirs with before me. I didnt know obviously

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Since the OP is asking for medical advice, this is best suited to IMHO.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

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Cow blood is important to Maasai nutrition. They extract it by shooting an arrow into the cow’s jugular vein and collecting just enough blood to not endanger the animal, and then bind it up and let it heal. They prefer not to slaughter cows if they can help it. They’d rather have big herds and lots of milk.

Lots of Europeans are animal-blood vampires too. They coagulate it and make it into a sort of sausage called black pudding or boudin noir, or soup or pancakes. Chinese cuisine also processes blood into food. The Maasai and Inuit are the ones who drink it fresh, though.

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I was going to post to ask if black pudding counts as modern vampirism. I love the stuff.

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The whole subject makes me gag, frankly.

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HIV is definitely not blood-to-blood only. Absorbsion through mucus membranes is a viable transmission route.

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