Not entirely sure if this is a bug or working as intended.
Taking the Virulence node in Life Drain does NOT appear to change the Stygian Beam to Poison Damage type. The tool tip still says Necro. The animation looks Necrotic as well.
Given the 1.0.3 fixed a bunch of nodes not working with Life Drain, this sets the precdent that Virulence should also work at as well,.