Killer germs are here to stay
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Many months into a raging global pandemic, which so far has killed over a million worldwide and pushed more than 3.5 crore people into seeking some sort of medical intervention, the world is not clear when will this public health crisis eventually blow over. Many farsighted public health experts have been warning for long that the world is ill-prepared for an assault by an invisible enemy such as deadly viruses and other microbes. As in the past, since the turn of the current millennium there were at least few such epidemics that were potential pandemics. As luck would have it, the impact of epidemics like SARS in 2003, bird flu in 2005 and swine flu in 2009 was limited as these viruses...