This paper was prompted by two editorials which appeared in the Hindu sometime in September-October last year. The articles said that Chikungunya is essentially not an infective disease and that it does not kill, and there is no vaccine and there is no cure, and therefore the only thing that we can offer for Chikungunya is supportive therapy. The editorials then went on to say that they were outraged that the state governments of South India have said that Indian systems have the drugs to cure this disease. The editorial even had the gumption to say that when the allopathic system has said that there is no cure, why the state governments were endorsing these \"unproven\" drugs. They are not only endorsing it but actively distributing it through the public health programme.
Indian Systems of Medicine, Bioterrorism and the Science of Epidemics
by Harish Naraindas, , 01 January, 1970