10 facts on yaws eradication

Yaws is a chronic infectious disease that is closely linked to poverty. It is eradicable as humans are the only hosts. A global campaign using benzathine penicillin injection reduced 95% of global cases in the late 1960s. However, abandonment of programmes and weak surveillance led to resurgence in many countries, prompting WHO to re-start control programmes in 2007.
Source: WHO Feature Stories - Category: Global & Universal Tags: neglected tropical disease [subject], neglected tropical disease [subject], poverty [subject], tropical disease [subject], tropical disease [subject], Feature [doctype], India [country], South-East Asia Region [region] Source Type: news