# RKS: WHY VIRAL IS THE BUZZWORD TODAY? - Why Is Information Never Bacterial?
# RKS: WHY 'VIRAL' IS THE BUZZWORD TODAY? - WHY IS INFORMATION NEVER BACTERIAL? 1st October 2022 VIRUSES vs BACTERIA THE EQUATION AND REASONS FOR LIMELIGHT Dear Reader, Coronavirus has opened a new hot topic regarding viruses. Never before were the general public concerned so much about viruses impacting human health and neither the medical profession had taken day-to-day viruses, even if endemic, so seriously. What was always talked in common parlance was the computer viruses and the news or messages / videos have become viral. Viruses are more a perceived threat to health but when linked to information the word ‘viral’ is anything but related to human health. Why is this so? An endeavour is being made to analyze the root cause of why the word 'viral' has been linked to spread of information on internet and Social Media and has overshadowed the more popular infecting ‘bug’ called bacteria. VIRUS vs BACTERIA We have all heard the terminology 'bug'. It means