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/^t/Most people nowadays are used to the fact that the age of fatal pandemics belongs to history. The present medical knowledge enabled mankind to control plagues and made them feel safe about it. However, the bacteria causing epidemics are mutable. They adopt to any circumstances and are ready to attack again: stronger and unknown to medicine, as happened in India recently. Thus, in case a country suffers from a plague the countries in its closest neighbourhood and those far away should take certain steps to prevent the pandemic from spreading to their homelands.