User blog comment:Astro321/The Vampire Girl/@comment-24269116-20131222225535/@comment-7600752-20131224005759

While I agree that "vampires" aren't real....there IS a disease that closely resembles vampirism. The disease causes people to loose most of their pigment and coloring. They also develop a certain taste for blood since they'e also anemic. But they are not vampires such as Meyer developed. Their actually people who resemble vampires....they they're probably where the vampire legends originated from.