PinnedQuo Vadis, Corona?No evil lasts a hundred years. — On the current pandemic, saturation affects the general population and front-line health care providers. There is a fed-up among people about SARS-CoV-2 and its many circumstances: political, economic, media, and health. All we need is breath! It is not prudent playing to be Nostradamus or pretending to guess the future…Coronavirus6 min read
PinnedLetter from a recent deceased.About the tragedy of the elderly besieged by the coronavirus. ‘Señores’ ―said Don Quixote― no so fast because in the nests of yesteryear there are no birds this year. Don Quixote (Chap. LXXIV) Dear all: While you are at home self-protecting from the crowned virus (Are you?), I died. I…Covid 195 min read
PinnedIs the Columbian hypothesis about the much-disputed origin of Syphilis a remote fake news?In the history of medicine, some issues caused great controversy when they surged. It usually occurs in science in general. Time is a great sculptor of life’s avatars. It usually resolves the conflicts, but, occasionally, some disputes are perennial. An excellent example of a non-resolved argument is Syphilis’s geographical origin…Syphilis8 min read
PinnedLes poètes mauditsThe writing process is not always a creative art. — I want to vindicate a forgotten and excellent writer: Heinrich von Kleist. Literature, like life, is unjust and cruel on many occasions. When I speak of literature, I am referring to the creative art of oral or written expression. I compare literature to life because, according to John, the evangelist…Heinrich Von Kleist7 min read
PinnedMutate or die, stupid!Mutations are like identity cards of many viruses. — Viruses do not mutate because they want to do it. It is a random phenomenon of nature. Life’s avatars live in a combination fortuitous of four letters. They are Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine ©, Thymine (T) in the DNA, and A, G, C, and Uracil (U) in the RNA…Coronavirus5 min read
Published in Microbial Instincts·May 17A New Tool for Dealing with Future Pandemics: VIRIONA new database that can help us understand and analyze ‘spillover’ better. — If one searches Google for the word “zoonosis,” one can see that it is a subject that matters (31.900.000 results in 0.65 seconds). It is because it encompasses a multitude of fields, such as the scientific, health, epidemiological, social, economic, and political. And all are interesting. The relationship between viruses…Pandemic5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 5The Omicron Saga“The family is a precious treasure” (Pope Francis) — The Coronaviridae family keeps growing because viral generations follow one after the other. A similar process happens to human beings. In humans, it depends on many factors that can interact. But the viruses fulfill a mandate written in the species’ genome. The genetic selfishness I treat here refers to an…Omicron6 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Mar 26Moral Ode For The People Of Good Will.Here is a brief reflection for those bewildered by warlords. For María and Curro, Berto’s “parents”. The future. Like Berto, the world needs to live and sleep in peace. To see how, every day, the sun rises and goes to bed with little or no shocks. …Peace2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Updated Mar 21Everything Has Its End.But it has not yet arrived. — One knows or assumes with a good approximation when an epidemic starts. And, better yet, the beginning of a pandemic. In the second case, ever there is an official date. The WHO, based on criteria agreed by many experts, determines it. For example, on March 11, 2020, for the current…Sars Cov 23 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Mar 9It is never too late to debate about mice, deer, and the animal markets.Let us say a little more about the Omicron evolutionary journey and the first departure station. — In a recent article published in ILLUMINATION, I discussed the evolutionary journey of the Omicron variant. To this end, it was necessary to address the complex relationship between coronaviruses and the animal world. As for the virus’s origin, we analyzed the three most widely accepted hypotheses. I now recall the…Coronavirus13 min read
