(1) 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 .

(2) Bush yaws is an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions in places such as the nose, mouth and ears.

(3) If someone is suffering from yaws or trachoma, of course in your own small way you will try to help.

(4) WHO also played a major coordinating role in controlling yaws in the late 1940s and onchocerciasis, leprosy, and polio in the past three decades.

(5) Salversan also proved effective against other maladies such as yaws .

(6) He worried obsessively about syphilis, which the yaws somewhat resembled; he pored over medical books underscoring lists of symptoms.

(7) And that was the area of some of the first campaigns, the mass campaigns for penicillin, the yaws eradication.

(8) 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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(10) In addition, endemic diseases, such as yaws , and epidemic diseases, such as measles and smallpox, may have increased the incidence of stillbirths and miscarriages.

(11) Diseases such as malaria were endemic, while blackwater fever, dengue fever, dysentery, yaws , and hookworms were a constant scourge.