Contagions, the diseases that spread from one person or animal to another through touch or through the air have currently aroused the world like never before, thanks to the virus that has been lately titled Covid-19 after a few weeks of being talked about as Coronavirus originating from China. Unlike its many predecessor pathogenic organisms threatening to upset the health of human beings as well as other life forms such as cattle, fowl and other domesticated animals, also taking toll of lives of the victims in specific locations, Corona has marched to the status of an epidemic, that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared as a pandemic, given its reported presence in more than 150 countries across the world.
The causes and cures of most of the illnesses bugging human populations all over the planet are understood to some extent by only a small fraction of the masses, including the literati and the educated. The illnesses being classified as (a) Contagious, (b) Hereditary, (c) Neither of these and (d) Thankfully Corona is accepted as not hereditary but contagious and that is no big consolation.
