Can the NaMonia virus be isolated?

The sudden, simultaneous indisposition of several senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last week was ascribed to many causes from indigestion to influenza, but the suspicion has fallen on an outbreak of NaMonia in certain vulnerable circles. The current climate is known to be conducive to the medically established similar-sounding variant called pneumonia, but this modified virus appears to be thriving too in this humid heat wave. As the elderly, the immuno-compromised and the very young are the most susceptible to pneumonia, relevant people should be monitored to prevent the spread of any incipient infection from either variety of germs.

Among the many strains of the better-known inflammatory condition is one called legionella pneumophilia, which is said to particularly attack people at conventions. In fact, it was named Legionnaires Disease in 1976 precisely because it wrought havoc at an army veterans’ meeting in Philadelphia. The Indian outbreak, tentatively dubbed electionella namophobia, appears to have also struck another type of veterans, albeit in anticipation of a meeting rather than at the conclave. This apparent mutation also needs to be isolated and examined before it joins the new scourge that terrified mankind, multi-drug resistant disease.