India, June 25 -- We all have seen how India suffered coronavirus spread, it was a very big battle to identify, isolate, and prevent the spread of this epidemic. Like the Chinese health bureaucracy, in India too there is a remarkable time lag before diseases get identified and before they get notified, if at all. India's medical bureaucracy is often loath to report bad news. We have seen the happening in case of dengue and chikungunya outbreaks in most Indian cities, where news only emerges after a few people have died and several seriously taken ill. The risk of communicable diseases increases manifold when other factors-environmental, socioeconomic, and demographic-are considered. The Nipah virus outbreak of 2018 in Kerala has several l...