What is Yaws?

Trevor
15/01/2012

 

Yaws is a disease affecting mostly poor children in the tropics. It eats away at skin, cartilage, and bone, affecting an estimated half-million youngsters in Africa, Asia, and South America. The normal treatment is a dose of penicillin. In a recent study of about 250 children, half received penicillin injections, the others were given azithromycin in pill form. After six months, the results were similar for each group: nearly all children were cured in both groups, and no serious side effects were reported.

 

 

Russell Hays, a physician at the remote Lihir Medical Center in PNG, says "For every one case of active yaws that we see, the estimates are that there's up to eight cases of children infected with the yaws organism who don't present because they don't have symptoms at the time".

 

 

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?b36362

 

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