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[[File:VampPOV.jpg|right|350px|right|thumb|[[Gordon Walker]]'s POV after being turned into a vampire.]]
===Powers and abilities===
* Enhanced senses - – Vampires are able to smell humans and vampires over long distances, once a vampire has your scent, they have it for life. Vampires also have the ability to see in pitch darkness, and have been known to exhibit an animalistic eyeshine effect (only shown in [[1.20 Dead Man's Blood]] and [[12.14 The Raid]]).<ref name="one20"/>* Immortality - – Once a human is turned, they become immortal and unchanging.<ref name="one20"/><ref name="six05"/>* Infectious blood - – Vampiric blood is highly infectious, a human can be turned by being fed a vampire's blood or if the vampiric blood comes into contact with an open wound or cut.<ref name="one20"/><ref name="six05"/>* Regeneration - – If a vampire has enough blood to feed on, they can heal quickly from any wound besides amputation.<ref name="eight05">[[8.05 Blood Brother]]</ref>* Retractable fangs - – Vampires have a second row of sharp teeth that emerge from their gums and extend beyond their human teeth, allowing them to rip out the throats of their prey.<ref name="one20"/>
===Weaknesses===
* Burning saffron, skunk's cabbage and trillium blocks a vampires scent. John Winchester gives these to Dean to put on the fire. He also tells Dean to dust their clothes with the ashes to stand a chance of not being detected.<ref name="one20"/>
* [[The Colt]] - – A special bullet fired from the Colt can kill a vampire.<ref name="one20"/> The gun is capable of even killing the [[Alpha Vampire]].<ref>[[12.14 The Raid]]</ref>* [[Dead man's blood]] - – A syringe of blood from a corpse can paralyze a vampire and cause wounds that are slow to heal.<ref name="one20"/><ref name="two03"/> More recently, hunters have taken to coating bullets with dead man's blood to achieve the same effect.* Decapitation - – Cutting off the head of a vampire will kill it.<ref name="one20"/>* Severe physical harm - – Serious physical injuries, while not fatal to vampires, can cause them debilitating harm for a time. With enough blood they can heal,<ref>[[8.05 Blood Brother]]</ref> but it can be extremely effective in the short term.* [[Smiting]] - – Angels can burn vampires from the inside out with a touch, killing them.<ref name="six19">[[6.19 Mommy Dearest]]</ref>* Sunlight - – Not deadly, but can cause a nasty sunburn and their eyesight is sensitive to UV light. Vampires prefer to sleep during the day.<ref name="one20"/>* [[Vampire Cure]] - – A cure for vampirism exists, but only if the vampire has not yet drunk human blood. The infected will need to drink a mixture that includes the blood of the vampire that turned them to reverse the effects of the vampirism.<ref name="six05"/>* [[Vamptonite]] - – The blood of humans which who has been poisoned by fed the [[Leviathan]] food additive is fatal to any vampire who ingests it. Called "vamptonite" by Dean, this is also effective if the blood is injected directly from a syringe.
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