By Pascal Niwebyona Kabale has registered a decrease in the number of people suffering from jiggers.
The district director of health services, Dr. Patrick Tusiime, said the recent indoor residual spraying against mosquitoes had also helped to eradicate fleas, bedbugs and cockroaches.
He said last Saturday that people were having sound sleep due to the extermination of the blood sucking vermins.
The American government sponsored the spraying exercise that involved all households and institutions in July and August using ICON insecticide.