Joyce Lokonyi sits on an upturned bucket, fingers weaving palm fronds as the wind pulls her dress to expose the stump of her amputated foot, lost to a little-known disease ravaging Kenya's poorest county.

Mycetoma is a fungal or bacterial infection that enters the body through any open wound, often as tiny as a thorn prick.

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