Neither chikungunya nor chikunguña: chicunguña

Abstract

I read with pleasure and interest the editorial by Manuel and Ivan Ramiro Álvarez on how best to adapt the term chikungunya to Spanish, and would like to make a few points. 

First of all, I am pleased to see that a publication of the career and standing of Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social cares about the correct use of medical language, wonders about cases of difficult spelling like this of chikungunya, documents its criteria for choosing one or another graphic variant, and finally makes its decision public with a reasoned argument.