Could a vampire get AIDS from drinking infected blood?

Or could it smell out the disease in it's victim.

hehehe..... thnk of the chances... Edward would get get AIDS and then all these gals would stop getting obssessed with him*dreamy eyes*....

Like the last answer said, it depends on your vampire universe. Whatever book or show you're reading/watching will have it's author's spin on the vampire "rules."

But, to just flat out answer your question, I've read a LOT of vampire books and for the most part - no. I don't think I've ever come across a vampire who could contract any human disease, much less AIDS or HIV. Although about 80% of the vampire book would provide for a vampire who could, indeed, smell the illness in the blood along with cancers, liver diseases and other blood born illnesses. This is the case in most vampverses because illness is the polar opposite of immortality which is usually a vampire must.

HTH!

Vampires are dead, they don't get sick, their body ceases to function, a virus, even AIDS, requires warmth and moisture to survive. They may get harmed by fire, acid, things that can physically destroy tissue from the outside, but as far as getting sick from internal gems you need a living host for those to thrive.

Now if you want to make some sort of goofy Vampire creature in a book that is somehow still functioning as a living being (even though they are referred to as the Living Dead or Undead) then have it and give them every blood disease in the book, that could be fun to have a vampire need a bone marrow transplant and tasting perspective donors.

As many of the other answers to this question have stated, it depends entirely on your vampire universe. It is entirely up to you, the author to make up the rules. You may find this a useful dilemma for one of your vampire characters to face. Or you could give your vampire special characteristics that would help them smell out the blood.

Entirely up to you.

I don't think so because vampires don't really get diseases. It may not taste very nice to them and I suppose they may not get any life from it but I don't think vampires get sick, or at least not from modern disease. It's not strictly covered in folklore though, obviously because AIDS wasn't around when it was written.

It depends on your world-building.

I've read vamps that can't harbor any illness, so it doesn't matter where their blood comes from. I've read some that are only susceptible to blood-borne illnesses like AIDS or Hepatitis, but they can avoid those sources. And there are others who can't sniff it out, so they're as vulnerable as anyone else.

It's all about how you build your mythology.

it depends in every book.
you could decide for yourself, how you want vamp to be. Weaklings bent on blood, or strong brutes bent on blood.
It would be a neat twist to a story to make a vamp get AIDS, though it would be pretty hard because as soon as the little AIDS disease in your blood hits the air/real world, they die.

Go ask Stephenie Meyer. If James and Edward were to drink from an AIDS infected person, she'd make James die and Edward miraculously live. Ew.

Sorry for using Twilight.

Also, depends on the author (if it's a book). But aren't vampires immortal? Common sense people!

It really depends on what world (author's world) you are viewing the vampires from. If it is The Sookie Stackhouse Novels (For 16+ at least) then yes and they can't smell it. They have to be careful. In the House of Night view, I don't think they can. I don't think they can in Twilight either.

medically he should get hiv..........
but according to imaginations it can even purify the vampire's blood! :)

Depends on your vampire. In some authors' variants, vampires can get sick from drinking tainted blood.

if its in a book then its the authors choice...you can try a practical of it

Doctors of vampire empire can answer.

I DON'T THINK THAT A VAMPIRE COULD GET AIDS FROM DRINKING INFECTED BECAUSE THEY COULD TELL.

no it wont .

vampires are made of magic and are immune to aids/cancer/swine flu etc etc ... except wood and silver .

AIDS is real....Vampires are not.....

actually thats a good idea for killing vampires, never thought of it

Only if they don't clean their fangs daily.
Nah BS i aint got know idea,