There are 5000 vampires living in the United States

It is difficult to believe that there are at least vampires living in the United states. This has been revealed in a survey conducted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and about 50 of them live in New Orleans alone. Of course, all of them do not need to drink blood to survive. Those who do so are called "sanguinarians". Actually, some of them simply derive strength from taking the "psychic energy" of others. This can be accomplished through intimate human touch, like giving someone a massage.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 29 October 2015.

The community has adopted different terminology to describe their unorthodox habits. For them, to "feed" means to drink blood, while those who give their blood are called "donors." Being "awakened" and "coming out of the coffin" are ways to talk about becoming aware of one's vampiric identity. "Elder vampires," are those who have been awakened for some time and can in turn advise others on how to cope.
This and other interesting data on vampires has been collected by John Edgar Browning who is a doctoral candidate at Louisiana State University. He apparently met his first "real vampire" in a Gothic apparel store and leather shop in New Orleans's French Quarter.
It was here that he came across a middle-aged woman who had teeth sharpened to a point.
Actually, these are people who seldom possess the supernatural powers that we associate with the likes of Count Dracula, but are in fact individuals who claim to have a medical condition that requires them to drink blood (human or animal) in order to sustain themselves.

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