In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the successful eradication of smallpox — the first and only human infectious disease to be stamped out. But before smallpox was on the WHO’s ...

Yaws is considered a neglected tropical disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pertenue, a subspecies of Treponema pallidum that causes venereal syphillis. However, Yaws is a non-venereal disease ...

February 16, 2012 — A single oral dose of azithromycin is as effective as injected benzathine benzylpenicillin for treating yaws among children living in Papua New Guinea, according to the findings of ...

First evidence of antibiotic resistance in yaws bacteria highlights need for robust vigilance and improved laboratory surveillance. First evidence of antibiotic resistance in yaws bacteria highlights ...

Mass treatment with azithromycin is a central component of the new World Health Organization (WHO) strategy to eradicate yaws. Empirical data on the effectiveness of the strategy are required as a ...

A neglected disease with a nearly forgotten name is making a comeback following a global control programme that almost eradicated it more than 40 years ago. Yaws, a disease which eats away at the skin ...

The ulcer resolved after the administration of intramuscular penicillin G benzathine. Arlene Dent, M.D., Ph.D. As of 2013, the presence of symptomatic yaws was documented in 13 countries in Africa, ...

The World Health Organisation has stepped up efforts to eradicate yaws, described as the "forgotten disease", after the discovery of a single-dose oral antibiotic that can cure it. Wiping out the ...

Scientists at the German Primate Center describe a new transmission path of a tropical disease Lesions on arms and legs, deformed faces - yaws is a tropical disease that infects the skin, bones and ...

An international research team, led by scientists from the German Primate Center, the Robert Koch Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, McGill University, Masaryk ...