KAMPALA, Uganda - A disease whose progression and symptoms seem straight out of a horror movie but which can be treated has killed at least 20 Ugandans and sickened more than 20,000 in just two months ...

WHEN the Tororo resident district commissioner, Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka, attributed the district’s low performance in the 2007 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) to jiggers, many treated his remarks ...

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 ...

Jiggers mostly affect people who live in houses with dusty and cracked floors and walls. People who have no shoes, and those who share accommodation with animals which carry fleas, are most vulnerable ...

Kigoma — Like most things historical, there are varying versions of how jiggers first came to Kigoma and many other places in Tanzania and the whole of East Africa, where the parasites are a big ...