Stamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoNot the same mansh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1397arrow-down116
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minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agohow would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days agoThey 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.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoYeah, I think that’s how reservoirs work, but I’m not a public health expert. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir
how would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir