Yaws

Yaws: Introduction

Yaws: A rare infections disease caused by the spiral-shaped bacteria Treponema pertenue. The disease consists of three phases: skin lesions are followed by bone, joint and widespread skin symptoms and finally by inflammation and destruction of cartilage in the nose, pharynx and palate. Transmission can be through direct contact with infected skin, insect bites or sex. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Yaws is available below.

Symptoms of Yaws

• Stage 1: single yaw:
  • Skin lesion at infection site
  • Raspberry-like itch skin eruption - the "mother yaw"
• Stage 2: multiple yaws:
  • Multiple skin lesions
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 38 symptoms of Yaws

Yaws: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Yaws:

• Skin ulcers (type of Ulcer)
• Facial ulcers
• Ulcers on soles of feet
• Leg ulcers
• Bone infection (see Bone symptoms)
• Joint infection (see Joint symptoms)
• more complications...»

Medical Textbooks Online about Yaws

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Yaws?

• Failure to diagnose Yaws
• Undiagnosed: Yaws

Treatments for Yaws

• Antibiotics
• Penicillin
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News Archives for Yaws

Medical news articles related to Yaws include:

• Consider Kids' Health on Tropical Trips
• Scientists Isolate Organism That Causes Disfiguring Tropical Disease
• more health news...»

Source: HealthDay News

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Prevention of Yaws

Prevention information for Yaws has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Yaws.

• Benzathine penicillin
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Statistics for Yaws

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• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Yaws
• Death and Mortality statistics for Yaws
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Yaws: Broader Related Topics

• Bacterial diseases
• Diseases contagious from bedding
• Diseases contagious from clothing
• more types...»

Types of Yaws

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Definitions of Yaws:

An endemic, infectious, nonvenereal disease in humans that presents mainly in children younger than 15 years. The disease occurs primarily in warm, humid, tropical areas of Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania, among poor rural populations where conditions of overcrowding and poor sanitation prevail. Infection with Treponema pertenue, a subspecies of Treponema pallidum, causes the disease. - (Source - Diseases Database)

An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Yaws is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Yaws, or a subtype of Yaws, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)