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What is the treatment for yaws?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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A single penicillin injection in a muscle is sufficient to completely end the disease.

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What is the prognosis for a patient with yaws?

Without treatment, yaws is a terribly disfiguring chronic illness. With appropriate treatment, the progression of the disease can be completely halted.


Is Yaws considered armed and dangerous?

is yaws considered armed and dangerous


How many people are inffected by yaws?

Many are infected with yaws like people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, yaws is eradicated in some countries like India.


What is the bacteria that can cause yaws?

The bacteria that can cause yaws is called Treponema pallidum. Yaws is a disease that mostly affects young children in warm, tropical climates such as those in Africa and Southeast Asia.


Is yaws unicellular?

Yes


How is the organism transmitted to other victims?

like when you have a cut are something then yaws gets in your cut and then it gets infected and then you have yaws . . . .


Why rhymes with Dawes?

laws, yaws


How does yaws attack and spread?

by mouth and smooching


Is yaws disease present in animals?

yes


What is the most effective weapon against yaws?

cheese


What is the axis where the airplane yaws?

It's longitudinal axis


Can you die from yaws disease?

Yes, but this is in rare cases.