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Only a virgin of the opposite sex to to the "sire" feeding upon them will become a new vampire (so female vampires can only create male vampires, and vice-versa).
Source: Manga / Hellsing -
She wasn't the progenitor of all vampires — indeed, her sire Andrew Bennett was the protagonist, The Atoner hunting down his evil offspring — but she did create and rule over the majority of evil vampires in the original miniseries and an army of them in the 2011 reboot.
Source: Vampire Monarch -
This comes with occasional side effects: Don Simon Ysidro and his sire Rhys developed a condition called bleaching, where they turned into near-albinos, and the Bey of Constantinople became unable to fully create new vampires — attempts simply produced a functioning mind in a rotting body.
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