A. It all depends how we view the Torah. In Hospitals extremely strict precautions are taken to avoid the slightest possibility, however remote, of contamination by disease. If you take the Torah seriously enough, all the safeguards and precautions the Rabbis set in place make sense. And the more we research the issues, the more we understand the rationale behind the extensions on the Torah’s prohibitions. Things seem farfetched when we know little about them.
