Jigger Disease – The Painful Truth You Never Knew: A Tiny Sand Flea That Burrows Into Human Skin, Lays Hundreds of Eggs and Slowly Eats You Alive, Causing Swollen Feet, Severe Infection, Bleeding, Pus, Terrible Smell, Disability and Social Rejection in Poor Villages Where Children and Elderly Walk Barefoot Every Day with No Clean Water, No Shoes and No Access to Proper Medical Care – A Silent Suffering That the World Rarely Talks About but Millions Continue to Experience in Silence While Hoping

Jigger Disease – The Painful Truth You Never Knew: A Tiny Sand Flea That Burrows Into Human Skin, Lays Hundreds of Eggs and Slowly Eats You Alive, Causing Swollen Feet, Severe Infection, Bleeding, Pus, Terrible Smell, Disability and Social Rejection in Poor Villages Where Children and Elderly Walk Barefoot Every Day with No Clean Water, No Shoes and No Access to Proper Medical Care – A Silent Suffering That the World Rarely Talks About but Millions Continue to Experience in Silence While Hoping

Jigger Disease – The Painful Truth You Never Knew: A Tiny Sand Flea That Burrows Into Human Skin, Lays Hundreds of Eggs and Slowly Eats You Alive, Causing Swollen Feet, Severe Infection, Bleeding, Pus, Terrible Smell, Disability and Social Rejection in Poor Villages Where Children and Elderly Walk Barefoot Every Day with No Clean Water, No Shoes and No Access to Proper Medical Care – A Silent Suffering That the World Rarely Talks About but Millions Continue to Experience in Silence While Hoping

The outbreak began in September when a flea-infested bundle of cloth arrived from London for the local tailor. Within a week, the tailor was dead, and more villagers soon began showing symptoms of the bubonic plague. Realizing the potential for a catastrophic regional outbreak, the village rector, William Mompesson, and his predecessor Thomas Stanley made an extraordinary proposition. They persuaded the villagers to quarantine themselves within the boundaries of their village to contain the plag