Group B strep infection is the most common cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis in the United States. Group B strep infection can also afflict nonpregnant adults with certain chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and cancer.
To research his immortal tale, Stoker immersed himself in the history, lore and legends of Transylvania, which he called a âwhirlpool for the imagination.â. Bram Stokerâs Dracula novel was published in Romanian for the first time in 1990.
The vampire is now a fixture in popular fiction. Such fiction began with 18th-century poetry and continued with 19th-century short stories, the first and most influential of which was John Polidori 's The Vampyre (1819), featuring the vampire Lord Ruthven.ccording to the paper, if the first vampire had appeared on 1 January 1600, and it fed once a month (which is less often than what is depicted in films and folklore), and every victim turned into a vampire, then within two and a half years the entire human population of the time would have become vampires.