buffer-overrun

I am just now watching Penny Dreadful (I’m up to s01e07), and I keep having these suspension-of-disbelief failures. Like, who cares about vampires, what about syphilis, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and tissue rejection of unmatched blood transfusions?

In a related note, the first identified epidemic of infectious blood-borne hepatitis was in Germany in 1885, after a mass smallpox vaccination (”fortified with human lymph”).