Coming from a relatively close knit family, I didn’t want to cause unnecessary stress to my parents and siblings, and thus foolishly tolerated the pain through sleepless nights.
And then it got really bad.
Chikungunya is the Makonde word for that which bends and describes the bent posture that the severely afflicted exhibit. Makonde is in Africa, bordering Tanzania, where the disease was first observed in the early Fifties.
