Was the 2006 epidemic of chikungunya in South India abioterrorist attack? A fact-sheet on chemical and bio-logical weapons at www.cbwinfo.comidescribes the chikun-gunya virus (CV) thus:`highly infective and disabling but ...not transmissible between people\'.Hence,`it would mostlikely be dispensed as an aerosol or by the release of infectedmosquitoes.The disabling joint pain and fever,the lack of asuitable animal reservoir in western countries and its lack oflethality make it a very \"clean\"weapon that could be usedagainst key civilian installations\'.
Epidemics of Fever : Allopathic Prevention or Alternative Cure
by Harish Naraindas, Journal of Health & Development, 01 January, 2007