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A child whose toe fell off into the water when they were cleaning her feet. A man whose body was so badly infested that he died of the complications at the last minute when the rescue team arrived.
A family that was heavily infested and a mother who had just given birth and one of her elder daughters was cutting the umbilical cord using teeth because they could not even afford a razor blade. They had just buried their infant in a carton box a week earlier.
What seems like gratuitous horror is just three of the cases that Dr Stanley Kamau has encountered that show the reality of how soul-destroying and physically debilitating jiggers can be.
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