A parasitic flea found in tropical regions that burrows into human skin, causing painful infections and known as a jigger or chigoe.
Variant spelling of 'chego,' from Spanish and West African language origins. Used in medical and colonial literature to describe the tropical disease caused by Tunga penetrans.
Colonial doctors were baffled by chegoes until they realized the flea's entire reproductive cycle happens inside the host—it's basically a living egg incubator in your skin.
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