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Yaws affects people in hot, humid areas in PNG and at least 13 other countries in the western Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 19, 2018

Yaws eradication planners "are not thinking about this from a one-health approach," Knauf says, referring to the notion that animal and human health are inextricably linked.

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 is said to be contagious and hereditary.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus