Outbreak of the bed bugs parasite in Kenya

One day when she woke up, Eunice Kagweria had itchy pimple-like protrusions on her stomach and back. “It was such a unsightly mess on my skin,” she says. She had no other symptoms of illness but the amount of discomfort she felt was “excruciating.”

The mother of two remembers deciding to wait and see if the “pimples” would go away but they didn’t. Finally, a pharmacist told her she had bed bugs in her house. “I thought the chemist was lying: of all things, I told myself, it couldn’t be bed bugs.”