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"Yaws is an important public health problem, and he made it a priority," she says.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 19, 2018

Yaws isn't fatal, but if left untreated it can disfigure the skin and bones, causing lifelong pain and disability.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 19, 2018

Yaws is a disfiguring skin disease that affects more than 1 million people in 14 African and East Asian countries.Credit:

From Nature • Feb. 7, 2018

Yaws affects mainly children and causes unsightly skin ulcers and painful bone infections that can make walking difficult.

From Reuters • Feb. 19, 2015

Yaws became serious, but that was a trifle as compared with dysentery; and pleurisy, pneumonia, fever and dropsy had also to be reckoned with.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell