What we get from India is not AIDS but Diseases

This was my standard saying in 1973 during my Internship and subsequently as a District Medical Officer in Undugoda, Kegalle. Then, our double doctorate N. M. Perera was our Minister of Finance and he represented Karavanella.

Chlolera imported from India through Jaffna was standard and I followed the WHO protocol and quranteened Undugoda Hospital for 3 weeks, one week more than the WHO requirement.

Idea behind was for me to be dismissed before Compulsory Service for 6 years so that I could go to UK. My brother was already in UK.

Under JRJ this was the first enactment nullified summarily by him.

My first day in hospital was spent on cleaning the floor of diarrhoea ward where sick kids were succumbing in numbers.

Additionally we had encephalitis epidemic.

Cholera

Encephalitis 

Dengue 

Still Malaria is imported from India.

I think the current cryptosporadios is also imported from India to AMERICA. 

May be brought in by a ship.

I would end up with a standard yarn about Indians and their gambling habits.

An American was holidaying in India.

When he saw an Indian daefacating on a sideroard, he said this does not happen in America.

He said he could prove that it happens even in New York.

They settle for an amicable bet and returned to America armed with two binoculars.

From a rooftop they scanned the entire neighborhood.

Then, the Indian Guy called the American Guy with jubilation to show his find.

It was Indian Embassy in America and the guy was the Inidian High Commissioner to America.

This yarn came in to vogue when Indian High Commissioner was charged with ill treatment of a domestic aid of a lower caste.

Caste system is stilll rampant in India.

The American lost the bet.

The corollary here is never take a bet with an Indian.

He always WINS.