I think I lost my wife to CHIKV

Dear Editor,

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the people who are doing well financially as a result of the spread of CHIKV are the doctors, the drug companies, the hospitals, the obeahmen, and the undertakers.

If the truth be told, the doctors know very little about the disease and, as a result, the treatment meted out to the poor patients is by guesswork.

I had a terrible experience a few weeks ago when I lost my wife.

I took her to see her regular doctor on a another matter and, after giving her an injection, he said laughingly to her, "You have CHIKV".

Neither of us, nor the doctor, knew much about it, and it presented as a little flu.

We went home, but a few days later my wife was running a temperature exceeding 100 degrees. I decided to take her to the hospital as she appeared to be getting sicker by the minute. In a few days she was dead.

After discussing the matter with a close friend of mine, I and now wonder whether the inaction of doctors is the leading cause of CHIKV-related death?

Ken Spencer

Kingston 8

ken3_1999@yahoo.com

I think I lost my wife to CHIKV

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