Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a novel focused on vampirism during Victorian time. Vampirism is a curse that awakens the dead as blood sucking monsters, however, it is also a metaphor or a symbol for disease. Vampirism can correlate with animal related illness such as rabies and bubonic plague seen in Dracula’s transformations. Although associating with animal related disease vampirism can also be associated with venereal disease such as syphilis shown in Dracula through the infection of Lucy and Mina. Vampirism rate of infection is closely related to the infectious theory. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is riddled with text that supports disease. “As the count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which do what I would, I could not conceal. The count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done this protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace” (Stoker 24). Specifically, “shudder”, “rank”, “nausea”, and “grim” all words hinting toward Dracula’s ill presence. These words are being used to describe an encounter with Dracula, they also happen to be the same words that could be used when describing illness. Dracula was written in a time when little was known or understood of infectious disease. However, while reading the novel’s subtext one can believe that vampirism and infection disease are highly similar. While studying Bram Stoker one will learn that he is from a medical background. Therefore implying that Bram Stoker’s knowledge of disease could very possibly give him the tools in which to write a book depicting infectious disease in the Victorian era. Bram Stocker’s uncle, William Stocker was an Irish physician who had a large part in the Dublin Fever Hospital