What scientists say about vampires

What scientists say about vampires

In the existence of the beyond most people looking from a scientific point of view, refusing to believe in the supernatural. Vampirism is no exception. Some argue that vampires - people sick with plague, taken for vampires, others - that vampires - people who suffer from porphyria, ... But what is so much disagreement?

"Professor Tikkanen said that he was able to solve the mystery of the nature of the Vampire.''At the heart of all European myths of vampires and werewolves - says professor - are real events.''According to him, in legend, overgrown with incredible detail and all devilry, lies the fate of people who suffer so-called porphin disease in a very severe form.
In this terrible genetic disease in the blood and tissues of the human body breaks down the pigment exchange. During the disease from solar ultraviolet radiation to initiate partial decomposition of hemoglobin. At the same time his non-protein part - hem - turns into a toxic substance, which erodes the subcutaneous tissue. As the terrible skin disease patient starts to get brown shade, becoming thinner and with prolonged exposure to sunlight breaks and begins to decay, emitting a nauseating smell. In the course of the disease deformed tendon, which leads to spontaneous twisting of limbs and fingers. In severe disease accompanied by the most cruel pain and changes in the psyche: the defeat of the porphin man begins to eat raw meat, sucking their blood, which requires the patient body to reduce pain and restore the balance of blood. Tremendous strength, which brought to ascribe vampires, they gave no supernatural abilities, as ordinary despair. Maddened by infected wild pain often assaulted and even people in a nightmarish battle they were not equal. Stop them could only fork or a good kick stake. Daylight intensified their suffering, for this to search for food, they came out mostly at night, after eating the pain receded, they were killed in a secluded corner of the (often neglected in the crypts) and slept. It is from here and went to stories about that day they sleep in their graves, and at night go out hunting.
The cause of the disease in humans porphin still poorly studied, but in most cases it arises as a result of incest, but in other words, incest between near relatives. This explains why so widespread disease in the mountainous regions of Transylvania inhabited by ignorant people with specific barbaric way of life.
Even now it is a rare disease that affects on average one person per one hundred thousand, is resistant to treatment: chemotherapy and frequent blood transfusion, not all afford it, but - after a disease is curable. "

By the above, I would like to add that this theory is certainly plausible, but besides her there are other types of vampirism, which in many respects do not meet her, and little can be explained from a scientific point of view at all. There are even cases where the same porphyria occurs in different ways.