That almost guarantees transmission, as the virus is carried in saliva. Gomez-Alonso found that nearly 25 percent of rabid men have a tendency to bite other people. Various other symptoms support the rabies-vampire link: Dr. Wolves and bats, if rabid, have the same snarling, slobbering look about them that folklore ascribed to vampires-as would a human being suffering from rabies. Juan Gomez-Alonso made a correlation between reports of rabies outbreaks in and around the Balkans-especially a devastating one in dogs, wolves, and other animals that plagued Hungary from 1721 to 1728-and the ‘vampire epidemics’ that erupted shortly thereafter. “In 1998,” writes Mark, “Spanish neurologist Dr. Garlic: The traditional belief that garlic’s odor deters vampires may have originated with the disease rabies. Read more of my interview with Mark, including his thoughts on the origins of vampires, on the Nat Geo News Watch blog.) ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. ![]() Mark’s new book, Vampire Forensics, and the work of National Geographic grantee Matteo Borrini in the cemeteries of Venice are the subject of an Explorer special premiering Tuesday at 10 p.m. ![]() ![]() (The source for the list: long-time National Geographic historian Mark Jenkins. Friends, please don’t try these techniques at home! For the rest of us, here’s a guide to some of the strategies believed, and actually employed, to ward off vampires throughout the ages. If you’re an entranced Bella Swan in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, you might not want to-at least not when the vampire in question is Edward Cullen. Ah, the eternal dilemma: How to stop the fiend that is (in Dracula author Bram Stoker’s words) “The Undead”?
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