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Source: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/ne...ies-like-disease-hits-tororo-district-3462016
Strange scabies-like disease hits Tororo District
Monday July 05 2021
Summary
Locals say they have been in pain for close to two months- struggling to fight the disease but it’s instead multiplying especially in families in the River Malaba corridor.
By Joseph Omollo
More than 100 people have been infected with a strange scabies-like disease in Amoni cell A, Asinge Ward, Malaba town council in Tororo District.
''It’s a very strange skin disease that starts with itching and then suddenly spreads to the entire body and makes one restless,’’ Mr Terensio Osire, 82, a resident in the area said.
Locals say they have been in pain for close to two months- struggling to fight the disease but it’s instead multiplying especially in families in the River Malaba corridor.
Another resident, Ms Florence Akodoi says continuous body itching affected her marriage as she and her husband became suspicious that the condition could have resulted from adultery on either side.
''We developed suspicion that one of us might have had an extra marital relationship, thereby contracting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) but sanity is resuming after seeing many other infected families in the neighbourhood,’’ she said...
Strange scabies-like disease hits Tororo District
Monday July 05 2021
Summary
Locals say they have been in pain for close to two months- struggling to fight the disease but it’s instead multiplying especially in families in the River Malaba corridor.
By Joseph Omollo
More than 100 people have been infected with a strange scabies-like disease in Amoni cell A, Asinge Ward, Malaba town council in Tororo District.
''It’s a very strange skin disease that starts with itching and then suddenly spreads to the entire body and makes one restless,’’ Mr Terensio Osire, 82, a resident in the area said.
Locals say they have been in pain for close to two months- struggling to fight the disease but it’s instead multiplying especially in families in the River Malaba corridor.
Another resident, Ms Florence Akodoi says continuous body itching affected her marriage as she and her husband became suspicious that the condition could have resulted from adultery on either side.
''We developed suspicion that one of us might have had an extra marital relationship, thereby contracting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) but sanity is resuming after seeing many other infected families in the neighbourhood,’’ she said...
