Jigger disease, also known as Tungiasis, is a silent torment that hides beneath the skin — a tiny parasite that can cause unbearable pain, infection, and humiliation. For many people living in rural communities, walking barefoot on dusty ground brings not only freedom but also danger, as the female sand flea burrows into the skin, usually in the feet or toes. Slowly, it grows, feeding on blood, laying eggs, and causing swelling, itching, and wounds that can lead to severe infections if untreated

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