TB and U

In Rhode Island, state folklorist Michael E Bell, who has found evidence of a least 16 such cases taking place from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century, has made extensive studies of the subject. If you want to know more about New England vampire beliefs than you'll find on this blog, read...

The vampire, romanticized in literature as a creature who sleeps by day and becomes a blood-sucking monster by night, has inspired the curious and fostered superstition for centuries. Today's scholar has separated fact from fiction, folklore from literary license. At a meeting this week of the Weste...

On 5 Feb 1970 Franz von Poblocki in the Polish town of Kantrzyno, was buried in the local graveyard. Two weeks later, his son Anton also died, while other members of the family experienced debilitating illness and terrifying nightmares. To the locals, the answer was clear. Even in the late 20th cent...

An excerpt from the book, A History Of Vampires in New England by Thomas D’Agostino and Arlene Nicholson. It seems vampires ran rampant among the New England people in the 18th and 19th centuries. Scores of families exhumed their loved ones in search of the ghoul that was taking their families from...

The medical examiner, Dr. Harold Metcalf ? who also did not believe in vampires ? was on hand at Chestnut Hill Cemetery during the exhumations. The corpses of Mary and Olive were well decomposed. Mary was partially mummified and had no blood in her heart. Mary Olive was only a skeleton with a thick ...

An article in the same newspaper on March 21, 1892, explained in detail the definition of vampires and the vampire cult, attributing its origins to the Slavic people of Russian, Poland, Bohemia and other parts of Europe. The article went on: How the tradition got to Rhode Island and planted itself f...

Mercy Brown: Rhode Island's Vampire By Rosemary Ellen Guiley Mercy Lea Brown (1871-1892), a young victim of a tuberculosis epidemic, entered folklore as America's most famous alleged vampire. News of the European vampire cult that leaked out to the West in the early eighteenth century swept on to i...

Before the Industrial Revolution, tuberculosis may sometimes have been regarded as vampirism. When one member of a family died from it, the other members that were infected would lose their health slowly. People believed that this was caused by the original victim draining the life from the other fa...

PATHOGENESIS of Tuberculosis means development of TB Infection occurs when a person inhales droplet nuclei containing tubercle bacilli that reach the alveoli of the lungs. These tubercle bacilli are ingested by alveolar macrophages; the majority of these bacilli are destroyed or inhibited. A small n...

M. tuberculosis is carried in airborne particles, called droplet nuclei, of 1–5 microns in diameter. Infectious droplet nuclei are generated when persons who have pulmonary or laryngeal TB disease cough, sneeze, shout, or sing. Depending on the environment, these tiny particles can remain suspended ...