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Here's How Long it Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity
To vanquish a vampire, one generally employs a stake, a cross, a string of garlic, or a combination of all three. But there's one highly effective anti-vampire weapon that few think to use: math. A surprisingly large number of academic studies—as in, more than one—have applied mathematical modeling to the concept of human-vampire co-existence. Using the depiction of bloodsuckers in various forms of media, from Bram Stoker's Dracula to True Blood...
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Interesting read. I feel like they should account for the models where vampires choose whether to turn their victim into a vampire. When I was growing up I remember at least one movie that the final step of turning was having the vampire to be, drink blood from the vampire turning them. The modeling seems to assume that everyone that is fed on, turns and begins feeding.