Elizabeth Bathory was not hungarian. She lived in times of great hungary empire, but she was Slovak!! And lived in the castle which is located on today's SLOVAKIA area. :)

This is just AWFUL reporting, people who are really interested in the biology in this story won't be impressed by the vampire angle one little bit. If you want to be taken seriously RT you will have to do MUCH better than this. Can you? Please!

Thanks Ron and Martin! It is the kind of reporting that occassionally shows up on RT, that makes yellow journalism turn red out of envy! This is the kind of stuff that need not ever show up on RT, unless it is a part of a broader story on Slavic mythology, vampires, etc. The story has no scientific value, and the very illustration (in bad taste) shows that it cannot be taken seriously. Also, thanks Martin to point out that Elisabeth Bathory was a Slovak. In the same vein, it has been reported way back in 18th century of the vampire phenomena, and again, the report submitted by the two Austrian officers was described as having taken place in Hungary. In fact, the place was Serbian, in the region that was once ruled by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

Bianca RT’s best journalists are Russians but for some reasons much of its new American recruits are doing Fox-lite reporting. But this story is not that simple. If you do little research you will come to realise that not only blood but "semen" had been thought to have rejuvenating power by the Romans. Today the Rejuvenation industry is over 300B Euros. So this is an important story. But RT needs to underplay its notorious use of visual icons to tell stories!

I wonder why you are discussing weather this piece of journalism is relevant as a vampire-story (which I find to be, in itself, fully irrelevant)? Instead, where's the outrage that we are funding research aimed at achieving unending youth? If not because it breaks every aspect of nature (which where to be considered unholy or even satanism, just 50-100 years ago), then because we already have a problem with overpopulation, and that this surely is counter-productive. I see this only as a perverted act of occult religious nonsense, which should have been disregarded as simply being insane. I tried to keep my tone as neutral as I could.

so, this means.. taking narrow bone from a child and insert it to an old person can make him/her young? this is dangerous! just dont let the surgent know anything about this. or else, women would kill children to stay young. ahahahhaa :P

In  theory Chinese medicine and Tao or Zen mediation.
Blood is generate by bone marrow.
bone marrow is generate by brain. 

Our society is overly youth-based, so it's only natural that they'd find some way to stay eternally young.  I'd like to stay eternally 25 or so then just expire at 100 or so.  It wont' happen for me in my time, but I don't want to pay all of those medical bills or fall apart.  I want to find a job and be able to work it until I die.  I don't like this doing nothing, and I don't want to retire.  I figure that's how they'll solve the problem and make it "fair" because we all know it's been done, and it'll start to show up in our society as well.  First as a status symbol like blonde hair.  There have been immortals running around for at least 100 years now if not longer.