yaws

Experts believe that yaws can be eliminated and eventually eradicated because humans are the only reservoir of infection.

Yaws can be treated with a single dose of a cheap and effective antibiotic: Benzathine Penicillin injection cures the disease.

Campaigns to wipe out yaws, syphilis, malaria, smallpox and polio required syringes, and many were reused, often with official approval.

Yaws is transmitted mainly through direct skin contact with an infected person.

Yaws is a chronic infection that affects mainly the skin, bone and cartilage.

More recently, India has also eliminated yaws.

This talk covers how to use Erlang to implement reliable, highly- concurrent HTTP-based services using the Yaws web server.

In the south-east Asia region, the aim is to eradicate yaws by 2012.

It is unclear if cases of yaws still occur in the Americas.

New cases of yaws appear every year.

Can yaws be eradicated?

There is no vaccine to prevent Yaws.

Between 1950 and 1970, WHO and UNICEF led a worldwide campaign to control yaws in 46 countries.

Experts believe that yaws can easily be controlled and possibly eradicated for the following reasons

Special Account for the Yaws Programme;

There are two basic stages of yaws disease - early (infectious) and late (non-infectious)

The clinical and the X-ray diagnosis of the bone yaws disease

to detect and treat all yaws cases and their contacts;