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All it would take is for vampires collectively as a (sub)species to really want to stay undiscovered.

All it would take is for vampires collectively as a (sub)species to really want to stay undiscovered. In most lores, they're powerful enough beings that it seems if each one was convinced of the necessity of staying a secret, they'd be able to with relative ease.

In what situations would a vampire be examined by a doctor? Here are some I can think of:

  1. A vampire murders a human (to drink their blood for sustenance) and is caught by the police and sent tomedically examined in jail. This seems like it could be avoided rather easily byIf the vampires. For example, if they have traditional supernatural powers, such as the ability to shapeshift, or if they have enhanced fighting capabilities (greater stamina or strength than humans)and stamina, they'd be able to escape such physical capture with relative ease.

  2. A young vampire is going to school and, in an effort to seem completely normal, volunteers (like the other kids) to be examined by the doctor for one reason or another. The doctor, surprised by strange and unusual features of the vampire's body, contacts the young vampire's parents in order to request permission for further study of the peculiarities. The vampire parents realize what will happen and they whisk the young one away before the doctor's testimony can be corroborated. In the worst case, they change their names and move to a new town, state, or country.

  3. A vampire is caught in a serious accident and is rendered unconscious. Bystanders take him/her to the hospital and doctors, examining its wounds, discover something unusual. The doctors of the one hospital start talking about a vampire, but either

    a. when/if the vampire regains consciousness, he/she would use his/her supernatural powers to run away, or

    b. when the other vampires of the community find out that this one's secret has been discovered, they whisk the still-living vampire away from prying eyes, destroy the body, or silence any witnesses.

Of course, these aren't all the situations where a vampire would be examined by a doctor, but since vampires don't have the same medical needs as humans, they would need to either want to reveal that vampires are real, or be involuntarily exposed to a doctor.

All it would take is for vampires collectively as a (sub)species to really want to stay undiscovered. In most lores, they're powerful enough beings that it seems if each one was convinced of the necessity of staying a secret, they'd be able to with relative ease.

In what situations would a vampire be examined by a doctor? Here are some I can think of:

  1. A vampire murders a human (to drink their blood for sustenance) and is caught by police and sent to jail. This seems like it could be avoided rather easily by vampires. For example, if they have the ability to shapeshift, or if they have enhanced fighting capabilities (greater stamina or strength than humans), they'd be able to escape physical capture with relative ease.

  2. A young vampire is going to school and, in an effort to seem completely normal, volunteers (like the other kids) to be examined by the doctor for one reason or another. The doctor, surprised by strange and unusual features of the vampire's body, contacts the young vampire's parents in order to request permission for further study of the peculiarities. The vampire parents realize what will happen and they whisk the young one away. In the worst case, they change their names and move to a new town, state, or country.

  3. A vampire is caught in a serious accident and is rendered unconscious. Bystanders take him/her to the hospital and doctors, examining its wounds, discover something unusual. The doctors of the one hospital start talking about a vampire, but either

    a. when/if the vampire regains consciousness, he/she would use his/her supernatural powers to run away, or

    b. when the other vampires of the community find out that this one's secret has been discovered, they whisk the still-living vampire away from prying eyes, destroy the body, or silence any witnesses.

All it would take is for vampires collectively as a (sub)species to really want to stay undiscovered.

In most lores, they're powerful enough beings that it seems if each one was convinced of the necessity of staying a secret, they'd be able to with relative ease.

In what situations would a vampire be examined by a doctor?

  1. A vampire murders a human (to drink their blood for sustenance) and is caught by the police and medically examined in jail. If the vampires have traditional supernatural powers, such as the ability to shapeshift, or enhanced strength and stamina, they'd be able to escape such physical capture with relative ease.

  2. A young vampire is going to school and, in an effort to seem completely normal, volunteers (like the other kids) to be examined by the doctor for one reason or another. The doctor, surprised by strange and unusual features of the vampire's body, contacts the young vampire's parents in order to request permission for further study of the peculiarities. The vampire parents realize what will happen and they whisk the young one away before the doctor's testimony can be corroborated. In the worst case, they change their names and move to a new town, state, or country.

  3. A vampire is caught in a serious accident and is rendered unconscious. Bystanders take him/her to the hospital. The doctors start talking about a vampire, but either

    a. when/if the vampire regains consciousness, he/she would use his/her supernatural powers to run away, or

    b. when the other vampires of the community find out that this one's secret has been discovered, they whisk the still-living vampire away from prying eyes, destroy the body, or silence any witnesses.

Of course, these aren't all the situations where a vampire would be examined by a doctor, but since vampires don't have the same medical needs as humans, they would need to either want to reveal that vampires are real, or be involuntarily exposed to a doctor.

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All it would take is for vampires collectively as a (sub)species to really want to stay undiscovered. In most lores, they're powerful enough beings that it seems if each one was convinced of the necessity of staying a secret, they'd be able to with relative ease.

It would only take one doctor examining them to realize they're different.

In what situations would a vampire be examined by a doctor? Here are some I can think of:

  1. A vampire murders a human (to drink their blood for sustenance) and is caught by police and sent to jail. This seems like it could be avoided rather easily by vampires. For example, if they have the ability to shapeshift, or if they have enhanced fighting capabilities (greater stamina or strength than humans), they'd be able to escape physical capture with relative ease.

  2. A young vampire is going to school and, in an effort to seem completely normal, volunteers (like the other kids) to be examined by the doctor for one reason or another. The doctor, surprised by strange and unusual features of the vampire's body, contacts the young vampire's parents in order to request permission for further study of the peculiarities. The vampire parents realize what will happen and they whisk the young one away. In the worst case, they change their names and move to a new town, state, or country.

  3. A vampire is caught in a serious accident and is rendered unconscious. Bystanders take him/her to the hospital and doctors, examining its wounds, discover something unusual. The doctors of the one hospital start talking about a vampire, but either

    a. when/if the vampire regains consciousness, he/she would use his/her supernatural powers to run away, or

    b. when the other vampires of the community find out that this one's secret has been discovered, they whisk the still-living vampire away from prying eyes, destroy the body, or silence any witnesses.

All it would take is a single vampire either slipping up or willingly sharing their secret.

Given the number of people that subscribe to certain "conspiracy theories," and how willing they are to show others the "evidence" that their theories are true, and then considering how rarely these theories are actually widely accepted, it seems like it would take more than just one doctor's opinion on the matter.

"But here we have a real, live (or dead) vampire body--it's obviously and scientifically different from a normal human!" you might imagine the journalists saying. But there have been vampire sightings reported in modern society (here's just one), and they are not taken seriously.

In many sci-fi and fantasy shows that aspire to realness, there is a governmental (or otherwise) agency whose entire purpose is to cover up any evidence of supernatural activity. This seems like something the US government would have a vested interest in doing, to reduce panic and so forth.

Even if the government wouldn't or couldn't do it, if the vast majority of the vampire community was willing to use their supernatural powers to discredit any media coverage, it would be relatively easy for them to do so. Evidence could be destroyed; the doctors' authority could be questioned ("he tampered with the body!" or "the police planted the evidence!"); a vampire who was well-known as a human celebrity or political authority could use their social influence to testify that vampires are indeed a legend.