3 family members die in village devastated by elephantiasis
- Podoconiosis, a rare form of elephantiasis, has affected a village in Uganda
- This disease has caused Margaret Tindimutuma's family untold suffering
- Tindimutuma's two sons and husband died of elephantiasis, a disease which also affected her daughter
A village in Uganda is being devastated by elephantiasis and three family members have lost their lives to this disease.
Margaret Tindimutuma, a Ugandan matriarch, has a rare type of elephantiasis that has caused her family untold suffering, BBC reports.
Legit.ng gathers that the matriarch said her two grown-up sons died after sores caused by the disease became infected.
Source: UGC
She said: "I have always had allergies since I was young. So when my legs started to develop little swellings, like boils, I didn't think much of it.
Source: UGC
"But the pain became so intense, I would feel pinpricks all over. The skin in between the toes broke out in sores. Then my sons started to fall sick. I wondered if they had inherited my illness."
Tindimutuma said her husband also died of the disease.
She said: "When we could afford painkillers, he would walk around. But by the time he died, he couldn't even leave his bed."
Source: UGC
One of Tindimutuma's daughters, Enid Twasiima, was rejected by her husband's relatives when she fell sick too.
Twasiima had to return to Kyakatoma village with her children.
This form of elephantiasis is called podoconiosis, and is said to be caused by exposure to minerals in the area's volcanic soils.
People in Kamwenge derive their livelihood from the land. They work the rich soil with basic tools and their bare hands.
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