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First Lady: 2m infested with jiggers

Kenya: Kenyans for the first time officially admitted that jiggers had become a significant health and socio-economic burden as the country inaugurated the National Jiggers Day to create awareness against the parasitic vermin.

The Jiggers  Day, marked every year on March 3, was the first health awareness day not initiated by the World Health

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