Journal of Health & Development

Epidemics of Fever

Harish Naraindas

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 infected mosquitoes.

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