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 ...

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 ...

Worse still, Ng’eno passed the jiggers to his firstborn son, 23-year-old Robert Koech, who was infested when he was a toddler. “Jiggers have literally made our bodies their home for as long as I can ...