Blood Disorder Led To Origin Of Vampire Folklore

Vampires — fictional blood-sucking beings that appear in folklores — may have been real people who suffered from a rare genetic blood disorder that caused the skin to blister under sunlight, according to a new study.

Porphyrias, a group of eight known blood disorders, affect the body’s molecular machinery for making heme, which is a component of the oxygen-transporting protein, hemoglobin.

The different genetic variations that affect heme production give rise to different clinical presentations of porphyria - including one form that may be responsible for vampire folklore, researchers said.

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