TRANSMITEREA BOLILOR INFECȚIOASE, PRIN RITUALURILE RELIGIOASE
TRANSMISSION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, THROUGH RELIGIOUS RITUALS

Summary/Abstract: Millions of people go to churches, both for weekly services and (mostly) for major religious holidays, following rituals without thinking about the fact that they might come in contact with an infectious disease. In the most frequent cases, during religious rituals, in churches, icons, crucifixes, the priest’s hand, relics, saints (on the face, on the forehead, on the cheek, on the mouth) are kissed , where everyone reaches and where they grasp), through movements and gestures that are always repeated in the same way, trivialized by repetition, in which consciousness does not participate. During communion, with the same spoon, everyone is given the anafura (a piece of bread) and the wine from the same glass (called a chalice, in the apostolic era), which reach, as if on a conveyor belt, in the mouth tens and even hundreds of people, waiting one after the other. In the countryside, the dead are still kissed on the forehead, on the cheek, on the hand.

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