With Kericho’s expansive tea plantations, large farms full of cattle and the panorama that creates the image of a perfect habitation, the last thing you want to hear about is jigger infestation among ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kampala — A 75-year-old man, who has been tussling with jiggers for the last nine months, has died. Yozefu Banzeyi, a resident of Katogwe village, Nkondo sub-county, died last week. The area LC1 ...

When Daily Monitor visited Mzee Augustine Okoth’s home in Mufumi Village in Nabijingo Sub-county, Bugiri District on Wednesday, the old man had to be summoned from a nearby drinking joint for an ...