can vampires get Aids?

Answer 1

they'll have anti-toxins to fight them

Answer 2

I don't have an authoritative answer about vampires in the real world; the only knowledge I have of such is the human fetish vampire subculture, and of course access to a host of vampire legendry from all cultures.

In Eastern Europe, vampires - known by various names such as dhampir, wamphyr, penanggallan (Far East) draugr (Norse) and vrykolakos (Greek) are reputed to be people, often women, who sin and who die unshriven, and who are thus condemned to rise from their graves to terrify God fearing folk. Even in the 21st Century, this is a major fear in some villages.

In Romania, a cat jumping over a grave marks that spot as being the grave of a vampire. That person is exhumed and ritually decapitaied. It is perhaps fortunate for all that the occupant is already dead.

There is a consensus that, presuming the existence of vampires, what vampires steal from the living is not literally blood, but life force. There is a consensus in occult circles that blood equates with life: ("The Blood is the Life" - Bela Lugosi). That said, to steal one's blood means to steal the body's capability to sustain life, transferring it to the body of the vampire, thus assuaging its vile hungers.

Some cultures have vampires stealing and eating the livers of their victims; others have vampires stealing their victims' breath, often while lying on their chests - a theme explored in the myth of the Succubus, and even in the old wives' tale of cats drinking the breath of infant babies in their cribs.

In the White Wolf roleplaying game Vampire: the Requiem, vampires are Damned, banished from Heaven and Hell and doomed to wander the earth forever. The Kindred, as they call themselves, literally have to consume blood, which they convert into the vampiric equivalent, Vitae.

At least, as far as the roleplaying game goes, Kindred do not have to worry about mortal blood borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV / AIDS; however, there is always the risk of a carrier passing on the infection through the bite, and the Kindred servants, called ghouls, are especially at risk, since they are living beings given a limited form of power through sharing their masters' blood, which could infect them.

As for real life vampires' worries about catching AIDS or hepatitis from drinking the blood of the infected, the only answer I can give is to point you towards the vampire fetish culture.

Be warned, though. Delving into vampire culture, whether the fictional side or the real world side, can lead you down some very strange roads. On some of those roads, there may be no turning back.

Answer 3

Of course they can, but since only a stake through the heart can kill them they are merely transmitters of the disease!

I love the movie scene where a vampire feeds on a wino. Afterwords the vampire stumbles all around and bumps into things.

Answer 4

I believe Aids lives in tissues and muscles as well as the blood, so I guess Vampires would have to worry too.

Answer 5

Anyone who shared infected blood could get AIDS. However, you'd have to prove the existence of vampires before you can fully answer this question.

Answer 6

vampires don't exist...but in the movies they sometimes have aids...or little minions that are aspiring vampires. So they have to proove themselves worthy of being a vampire to the, well umm vampires, before they are bitten and become a vampire...so to sum it up, yes, in a sence vampires can have aids in certain movies...

Answer 7

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Can vampires get HIV/AIDS and other diseases from blood?

Living vampires are organic lifeforms and are vulnerable to human ailments, including AIDS and other blood-borne diseases. However, drinking blood is not the easiest way to contract HIV. Blood-borne diseases are transmitted by direct contact between infected body fluids and the recipient's bloodstream. They cannot be contracted through ingestion (drinking) alone. Unprotected oral sex, including fellatio, is the lowest risk form of unprotected sex. This does not mean NO risk. You can contract blood-borne diseases orally if you have any kind of open sore, abrasion, or cut in your mouth which allows an infected body fluid direct contact with your bloodstream. If you have bleeding gums, or if you ate a bag of potato chips recently, your risk will be higher. Barrier protection is still strongly advised for oral sex. Similarly, experienced blood drinkers strongly recommend that "donors" be people known to you, and that they undergo testing for HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases.

I am not stating this fact in order to encourage people to be reckless. However, there are factions who might be tempted to accuse blood drinking vampires of endangering the public health through the spread of disease, especially AIDS. Such accusations are baseless and inflammatory. Blood drinking is significantly less likely to create a vector for HIV transmission than unprotected anal sex (the most high-risk sexual activity). With proper precautions observed--and blood vampires are no more interested in dying than anybody else!--blood vampires present no greater danger to the public welfare than anyone else.

Answer 8

Actually Naddel you want to be careful about that because anything you ingest is absorbed across your stomach lining into your bloodstream and so you would contract HIV from drinking the blood of an HIV positive person

Answer 9

Seen as though vampires don't really exist I would bet on no. and if they did I would say they are either immune to it or can smell it out before feeding. x

Answer 10

there are no vampires. And to get aids anyways, you have to either get in sexual contact or get infected blood in you veins. Vampires swallow blood, don't get it in their veins.

Answer 11

Would it matter? It could only kill them if you pass a little silver nitrate along with the aids.