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Chikungunya

People in hundreds falling sick,
With a strange malady so belligerent,
Never before had they suffered so much,
From any ailment known to them.

It has spread its virulent hooks,
On everyone both young and old,
Hospitals remain flooded with patients,
Scarce in space to accommodate all.

The sickness starts its sudden onslaught,
With fever followed by symptoms many,
Ruddy face and itching skin,
With swollen body and aching limbs,

People move limping lame,
With ankles strained with darting pain.
A terrible fatigue sways over,
And a few develop loss of taste,

Constant nausea strikes a few,
And bowel control - loses some.
Many are plagued by recurring fever,
And bulging sores are found in some.

No body knows what it is,
The cause for it is yet to be traced.
Experts remain greatly confused,
And its remedy still is never devised.

Some call it Chikungunya,
Others name it viral attack,
When Ades mosquitoes stay the culprit,
Pavro Virus is blamed by some.

Dissensions thus hang very loose,
But the truth remains grievously plain.
Blighted it has the lives of thousands,
And left many to die in pain.

Shame that so far nothing is done,
To arrest its outbreak or slacken its pace,
What use it is to slander others
Or put the blame on people in power?
Alas! The suffering is our own make!
And the price to be paid is our dear life!
The falling hygiene and foul habits,
Have laid us in this sorry plight.

(Written in the month of July 2007 in the wake of the outbreak of Chikungunya, raging mad in the state)

poem by Valsa George
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