Namasté! In the summer of 1993, after completing our undergraduate degrees, me and some friends took a trip to India for the entire month of August. As a preparation we gave a call to the Indian Embassy asking for any precautionary measures that we would need to undertake. Namely we asked if any special vaccination would be required. To our astonishment the reply was: "Why, are you bringing any disease to our country?!!" So the only measure we decided to follow was the malaria prophylaxis with quinine. Nevertheless, in the first couple of days after arriving in India we did take some precautionary measures, like being careful not to drink non bottled water and washing our hands with betadine before eating. However right in the first restaurant we ate, after meticulously washing our hands, we were served some sort of lentil paste. The waiter used his hands to pour the food in our plates!!! (Ok, it was not exactly a first class restaurant). After that we decided to sto