World Hemophilia Day

I'm not sure how I seemed to have missed this story, but apparently in April called World Hemophilia Day. Hemophilia is a blood disorder which it takes a long time for the blood to clot. The most notable person with the disease would be Alexei, the son of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. Of course you can't mention Alexei without also mentioning Rasputin, the creepy bearded man who could stop the bleeding, something that no one else seemed capable of doing.

World Hemophilia Day was celebrated around the world in a variety of ways. (Apparently, the US doesn't find this monumental holiday as exciting as Romania). For example, many pharmaceutical companies make large donations of products and money to the World Federation of Hemophilia to commemorate this day. Not only is their an entire day dedicated to hemophilia, but they actually have a federation.

Donations weren't enough for the people in Romania. Instead of making a contribution, they decided to turn a Buchrest city fountain blood red to raise public awareness of the disorder.

Was there no other way for the Romanians to raise awareness of Hemophilia besides turning a fountain blood red? I guess you can't be too surprised, considering Transylvania is located in Romania.

Transylvania = vampires = vampires love blood

I assumed that vampires weren't real, however, I'm beginning to think my assumption is very incorrect. How else could you explain a country turning fountains red to make people aware of blood disorder?

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the conversation, when someone proposed the idea of turning fountains red. I'm curious as to whether the other people in attendance gave the man blank stares or were overly excited about the idea.

Actually, I'm beginning to think there was a room full of grown men who jumped on the idea of freaking out the entire country with red fountains. The Romanians didn't just turn one fountain red, they turned pretty much any fountain in the country red. 

I'm curious whether the citizens knew anything about this before hand. Could you imaging walking past a fountain and it suddenly turning red. Personally, I would have been completely freaked out and probably pooped my pants. Actually, I would have completely pooped my pants and probably had a complete panic attack.

Leave it to the Romanians to make an awareness day creepy.