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March 3 has been declared Jiggers Awareness Day by Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu.

Mailu declared this in the Kenya Gazette Notice number 1302 and said that the day would be marked annually.

According to the Standard, the national policy on the prevention and control of jigger infestations has marked tetanus as a common secondary infection associated with death as well as the spread of HIV/AIDS.