| Diseases such as malaria were endemic, while blackwater fever, dengue fever, dysentery, yaws, and hookworms were a constant scourge. |
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| If someone is suffering from yaws or trachoma, of course in your own small way you will try to help. |
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| And that was the area of some of the first campaigns, the mass campaigns for penicillin, the yaws eradication. |
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| 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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| Salversan also proved effective against other maladies such as yaws. |
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| The most prevalent disease in Rotuma is undoubtedly yaws, or framboesia, known generally under the Fijian name of coko, though I also heard the Polynesian name, tona, applied. |
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| My favourite physician-turned-leader was, of course, Francois Duvalier, the legendary Papa Doc, a practising physician who as a country doctor tried to rid Haiti of the yaws. |
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| Around the world, yaws is known by many different names, including pian, patek, parangi, buoba, frambesia tropica, granuloma tropicum and polypapilloma tropicum. |
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| In addition, endemic diseases, such as yaws, and epidemic diseases, such as measles and smallpox, may have increased the incidence of stillbirths and miscarriages. |
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| Many common tropical skin diseases skin like yaws and leprosy can be easily treated with penicillin. |
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| If the aircraft yaws, lateral stability will result in the aircraft rolling in the direction of the yaw. |
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| She, though, thinks the evidence suggests that an ancestral disease resembling yaws first arose in the Old World as a non-venereal infection. |
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| Such campaigns addressed diseases, including Guinea worm, smallpox, leprosy, trachoma, yaws, elephantiasis, and other conditions affecting the ability to work. |
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| Mechanical transmission of trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, and yaws through the agency of non-biting haematophagous flies. |
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| The group includes yaws, a disease of the skin, bones, and joints passed from one person to another through bacteria carried by eye gnats or entrance of the bacteria through a cut. |
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| Sleeping sickness, elephantiasis, leprosy, helminthiasis, trachoma, leishmaniasis, Buruli ulcers, schistomiaisis and yaws are among neglected diseases that still ravage lives covertly. |
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| It spread to the Middle East and eastern Europe, and then on to the Americas in the form of New World yaws when humans crossed the Bering strait some 13,000 years ago. |
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| The first thing Dr Harper found, as she reports in the Public Library of Science, was that of all the treponematoses, yaws was most likely to resemble the ancestral pathogen. |
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| In addition, they were able to locate two specimens of yaws from the only known site of active infection in the Americas: Amerindians living far inside Guyana. |
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| For example, its mass vaccination campaigns against yaws in the early fifties effectively extended protection to close to 50 million people in the developing countries. |
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| When an operating engine is autofeathered and shut down, the aircraft initially yaws as the propeller blade angle increases toward feather, and then yaws in the other direction as the drag decreases. |
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| These tests are highly sensitive, and possible false-positive syphilis tests should be kept in mind in individuals from areas of the world where pinta, yaws and bejel are prevalent. |
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| Typical water-washed diseases include Shigella, which causes dysentery, scabies, trachoma, yaws, leprosy, conjunctivitis, skin infections and ulcers. |
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| Ten year old Albert is given an injection of penicillin to treat yaws, a contagious skin disease that has been eradicated in much of the world, but common amongst forest dwelling communities. |
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| L'ACADIEN II took to cutting a series of yaws or S-curves from side to side, sometimes bouncing off the ice edge formed by the icebreaker's passage. |
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| Condylomata lata, similar to those seen in venereal syphilis and yaws, can occur. |
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| Once goals were set, smallpox, guinea worm disease and yaws were eliminated, virtually on time. |
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| Infection of the foot and ankle, including leprosy, mycetoma and yaws. |
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| Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here. |
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| Other threats came from organisms co-evolving with humans, including tapeworms and such spirochaetes as Treponema, the agent of syphilis, and the similar skin infection, yaws. |
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| Thelocalisation of treponemes and characterisation of the inflammatory infiltrate in skin biopsies from patients with primary or secondary syphilis, or early infectious yaws. |
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| Yaws is found in humid equatorial countries, where transmission is favored by scanty clothing and skin trauma. |
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