How would you stat up rabies?

[jgsugden]

Just to be on the safe side, try to make sure nobody has had any family losses associated with the disease ... It is far rarer these days, but once upon a time it was not too uncommon for a pet to be put down for fear of the disease. A parent or grandparent that lost a pet for fear of the disease may not enjoy overhearing it being used as part of entertainment.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Tony Vargas]

didn't it start the vampire legends?

Porphyria gets credit for that, a lot, because of the sunlight sensitivity.
(Though there was another, more familiar disease - I want to say TB, but I'm not sure - that was credited with starting certain vampire legends, like the ones Carmilla was based on. The disease would tend to slowly kill off the children in a household, so the superstition that developed was that the first child to die became a vampire that then fed on their siblings one by one.)