But perhaps the most stomach-churning scene occurs when the cameraman, Jonathan Young, discovers a jigger flea has tunnelled into his ankle to lay its eggs. A toe-curling extraction involves the ...

The jiggers flea, also known as sand flea ... They estimated about 2.6 million Kenyans suffer from tungiasis resulting from jigger infestation. Tungiasis, they say, is a common problem among ...