yaws in English

noun
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a contagious disease of tropical countries, caused by a bacterium that enters skin abrasions and gives rise to small crusted lesions that may develop into deep ulcers.
One of the most common was mercury, which had been used by the Arabs for centuries to treat leprosy and yaws .
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1. Can yaws be eradicated?

2. We failed against malaria, yellow fever and yaws.

3. New cases of yaws appear every year.

4. More recently, India has also eliminated yaws.

5. There is no vaccine to prevent Yaws.

6. Many spirochetes are pathogens that cause yaws and syphilis.

7. As with yaws,(sentence dictionary) penicillin is the treatment of choice.

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

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

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

11. In the south-east Asia region, the aim is to eradicate yaws by 20

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

13. 23 The road yaws out in front of us, and it is clear that yet another armadillo has been chucked overboard.

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

15. Crosby writes, "It is not impossible that the organisms causing treponematosis arrived from America in the 1490s ... and evolved into both venereal and non-venereal syphilis and yaws."

16. This theory is supported by genetic studies of venereal syphilis and related bacteria, which found a disease intermediate between yaws and syphilis in Guyana, South America.

17. Despite the tradition of assigning the homeland of yaws to sub-Saharan Africa, Crosby notes that there is no unequivocal evidence of any related disease having been present in pre-Columbian Europe, Africa, or Asia.

18. : a light-yellow toxic hygroscopic powder C12Cl2H14As2N2O2·2H2O formerly used in the treatment especially of syphilis and yaws First Known Use of Arsphenamine 1917, in the meaning defined above History and Etymology for Arsphenamine

19. According to the publication Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Chagas’ disease, along with African trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness), yaws and filariasis (hairlike worms from two to three inches [5 to 8 centimeters] long), is transmittable through blood transfusions.

20. As nouns the difference between Arsphenamine and neoArsphenamine is that Arsphenamine is (pharmaceutical drugorganic compound) a phenolic amine derivative of arsenic that was used to treat syphilis (under the trade name of salvarsan) while neoArsphenamine is a derivative of Arsphenamine once used to treat syphilis and yaws.