Musings Own Thoughts

 It is indeed a paradox that with all the achievements of humanity the bugs bacteria, parasites, fungi and viruses are capable of creating havoc and laying low so many persons daily. The morbidity and mortality caused by these are there for all to see. While technology and science have made life far easier and comfortable our vulnerability to bugs has increased manifold and the capacity to defeat the invaders has declined precipitously. Infection is a result of the confluence of three factors, the infecting bug, the host namely the human body and the environment. We seem to believe that care of the host and control of environment is in our control and the bug is not, however really all three are under our control. To add to this confluence there are two more issues under consideration, immunisation and Antibiotic resistance. While we talk of life on Mars, automation, high technology innovations, internet of things  and the threat of Artificial Intelligence we neglect the war o...