10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHIGOE»
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chigoe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chigoe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Handbook of Amazonian Languages
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_a FOOT / V _# MONKEY c I e_e CLAW 4 / _o (after metathesis) DREAM CHA c /
u_i# CHIGOE t / _ BREAST, CHEST, CHOP, CLAW, DUNG, FAR, FOOT, PATH ...
Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum, 1991
2
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations ...
Pain is now felt by the victim, who generally has recourse to the skillful old dames
, who have a kind of monopoly of extracting Chigoe " nests." With a needle they
carefully work round the globular body of the buried insect, taking great care not ...
3
Encyclopedia of Pest Management
Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), chigoe fleas (Tunga penetrans),
European chicken fleas (Cerato- phyllus gallinacea), sticktight fleas (
Echidnophaga galli- nacea), Western chicken fleas (Ceratophyllus niger), and
several species of wild ...
David Pimentel, Ph.D., 2002
4
A Treatise on the Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of the ...
The presence of the Chigoe entails local disorders of an inflammatory nature at
first, then ulcerative. The wounds have a tendency to extend and become
gangrenous, and in Man — whose feet are oftenest attacked — arthrites,
necroses of ...
Louis Georges Neumann, George Fleming, 1892
5
Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
Upon careful inspection a point is visible in the cuticle where the enemy made
good its lodgment ; a servant is now commonly consulted, who tells him it is a
Chigoe, and that it can easily be pulled (as the term is) either then, or in a day or
two, ...
6
Articles on Fleas, Including: Flea, Stephanocircidae,
Chigoe ...
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The troops started on the night of the 18th, and reached Chigoe Foot Market, ten
miles off, at daybreak on the 19th, after effecting the march under great difficulties
, arising from the state of the weather and the swollen condition of the rivers.
8
Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of ...
3 15 causing any pain. There is a slight irritation, rather pleasing than otherwise,
to which a novice pays no attention, but which puts an experienced person on his
guard at once. The male Chigoe is innocent of causing any direct injury to man, ...
9
Homes Without Hand Being a Description of the Habitations of ...
Pain is now felt by the victim, who generally has recourse to the skilful old dames,
who have a kind of monopoly of extracting Chigoe “nests.” With a needle, they
carefully work round the globular body of the buried insect, taking great care not ...
10
Strange dwellings. Abridged from 'Homes without hands'. ...
The only insect which can be said to be parasitic on man, and at the same time to
form a habitation, is the celebrated Chigoe (PuUx penetrans), otherwise called
the Jigger, or Earth Fly. This terrible pest is a native of Southern America and the
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHIGOE»
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chigoe is used in the context of the following news items.
Tall grass and chiggers
This widespread myth has its origin in the southern states where pests with similar names such as jigger flea or the chigoe do attack by ... «Tahlequah Daily Press, Jun 15»
Taiwan used shoe campaign saves lives in Kenya
... in this remote part of Kenya, Remley found many of Kenya's schoolchildren were afflicted by the chigoe flea as they could not afford shoes. «Taiwan Today, Apr 15»
Ugandans fight jiggers with cow dung
... some of his toenails are already gone because of the blood- and flesh-sucking jiggers – parasitic arthropods also known as the Chigoe flea. «Anadolu Agency, Mar 15»
Volunteers to send 100000 pairs of old shoes to Kenya
... pack and move some 100,000 pairs of secondhand shoes that will be shipped to Kenya to help prevent infections caused by chigoe fleas. «China Post, Jan 15»
Online campaign sends shoes to needy in Kenya
Over the past few years, they have seen an increasingly large number of local people affected by chigoe fleas, also known as jiggers — a ... «Taipei Times, Dec 14»
Night out ends in public humiliation
... that the people living in a remote mountainous area in Kenya, Africa, were suffering from life threatening infections caused by the chigoe flea, ... «The Star Online, Dec 14»
'It's not a store. It's a story.'
Jiggers, also known as Chigoe Fleas, are parasites which bury into the feet and hands of their host and lay multiple eggs, causing swelling, ... «Blue Ribbon News, Nov 14»
Engineering Students Design “Happy Feet,” 3D Printed Shoes for …
The jigger (or chigoe) flea can lead to some pretty terrible symptoms — jigger infections can cause sores, inflammation, secondary infections ... «3DPrint.com, Nov 14»
'Jigger' fleas burrow so deep that victims must have them cut out of …
Jiggers are small chigoe fleas that live in the dust, and are found on the dirt floors in schools and the homes of many families in Uganda and ... «Daily Mail, Nov 14»
The parasite keeping millions in poverty
The culprit is small, but its impact is big. The chigoe flea, more commonly known as a jigger, typically burrows itself into the feet and hands. «CNN, Oct 14»
