Not the same man

i'm aware, but we've already established that it wasn't swallows.

This is headcannon now.

I would watch that.

It's possibly the other way around.

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.

People used to think it works like this, but it's actually even more fascinating!

The vampires could still kill some people who domesticated garlic, but only those whose garlic was weak. This introduced evolutionary pressure, or in other words: by accident, they selected for stronger garlic.

It's like when you take antibiotics and stop too soon, leaving only the most resistant bacteria alive.

If based on per capita consumption, China has the most vampires.

...And the omnipresence of garlic in Chinese cuisine would also be what drove jiangshi to develop garlic immunity, makes sense.

how would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?

TIL about jiangshi. Thanks.

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.

Natural reservoir - Wikipedia

(en.m.wikipedia.org)

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

I think vampirism being a bloodborn pathogen is the consensus.

could be a fungal infection

Yeah, as long as it's bloodborn.

well if it's fungal it could have other methods of transmission that aren't documented due to lack of study. like you know how brazil nut allergy can be triggered through fluid exchange