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Groups call for intervention as strange disease ravages villagers

Jumwa Kitsao at her home in Mpirani village in Magarini Sub County, Kilifi County. She has been suffering from an unknown disability for 13 years and is bedridden. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

It is over one year since doctors from Nairobi camped in Mpirani village in Magarini Sub-county, Kilifi County, and collected samples from hundreds of villagers with strange deformities.

The disability trait has remained undiagnosed and the villagers say they are losing hope in the exercise by the doctors to unravel the mystery behind the bizarre occurrence.

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