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Twelve-year-old Napilu Patrick said he could no longer walk to his primary school about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from his home because jiggers were infecting his feet and causing deep wounds. Apart ...

INSECT bites are a not-so-pleasant souvenir many of us bring back from our holidays. And it can often be hard to figure what kind of creepy crawly has left us with such a memento. Please provide a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - An estimated 2.6 million Kenyans are infected with jiggers, a flea-like parasite that burrows under the skin. Left untreated, jiggers can lead to all kinds of secondary infections, ...

Kenya's government has admitted there are more than two million jiggers sufferers in the country, while a further ten million face the risk of infestation. A new campaign to eradicate the parasite has ...

Adonia Babi Kirevu (Left) has jiggers in both his fingers and feet. (Above)Is the foot infested with jiggers. Photos by Paul Menya. The risk for infestation from tungiasis or jiggers is high if feet ...

Jiggers are small parasitic fleas, also known as chigoe flea, which usually enter their victims through their feet, causing parts of the body to rot leading to a horrific death. We lack drugs for ...

At least 650 people in Bwambare Sub-county, Rukungiri District, have been suffering from jigger infestation since August last year. One of the victims, Ms Susan Mugisha, 18, a resident of Kateramo ...

Theresa Josephine Nakazzi, a frail, 79-year-old woman, lives with her son, Stephano Kakooza, 62, in a small, two-room mud house in Kasubi village in central Uganda's Masaka municipality. What attracts ...

Kampala — Like most things historical, there are varying versions of how jiggers first came to Busoga. Roderick Ahimbazwe and Tom Gwebayanga visited the region to investigate He sits at the entrance ...

Nairobi — By the middle of November, Uganda should have four more monarchs. While this would ordinarily be received as good news, the snag here is that three of those monarchs may well be laying claim ...