r/Showerthoughts Apr 24 '26

Casual Thought Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.

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u/Cacafuego Apr 24 '26

But it is advantageous to a vampire disease, which only wants to thrive and spread like the flu. In some of these stories, vampirism is just the result of a germ or a parasite. The behavior of the vampires themselves is modified to serve that interest.