How many victims a year does the disease called yaws take? Ive got two days?
March 3, 2008 by admin
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I’ve looked everywhere on the Web:AskJeeves, Google, Yahoo, you name it!
other info:
Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin, bones and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pertenue.
The disease is transmitted by skin contact with infected individuals, the spirochete entering through an existing cut or similar damage. Within ninety days (but usually less than a month) of infection a painless but distinctive ‘mother yaw’ ulcerous papule appears on the skin at the point of entry, it is often described as raspberry-like and is 10-50 mm in size.
The largest group afflicted by Yaws are children aged 6 to 10 years in the Caribbean Islands, Latin America, West Africa, India, Oceania or Southeast Asia. There were World Health Organization funded campaigns against yaws from 1954 to 1963 which greatly reduced the incidence of the disease, although more recently numbers have risen again.
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hound9_4 on Wed, 5th Mar 2008 10:11 am
There was a WHO report on tropical diseases in 2004 that might be helpful:
Tropical disease death statistics by worldwide region:
About 56,000 deaths from Tropical diseases in Africa 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
About 16,000 deaths from Tropical diseases in The Americas 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
About 36,000 deaths from Tropical diseases in South East Asia 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
About 15,000 deaths from Tropical diseases in Eastern Mediterranean 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
About 5,000 deaths in Western Pacific 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
Also, here are some statistics on yaws in southeast asia from the WHO web site:
About 5,000 cases are reported annually, 4,000 in Indonesia, 1,000 in Timor-Leste and a few cases in India.
There is a lot on yaws on the WHO web site. I am not sure if it lists deaths due to yaws anywhere, however. What if you contacted the WHO and asked?
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Here is another little bit of information from another site:
“In 7157 West Indian cases treated in various hospitals there were only 185 deaths, a mortality of 25.8 per thousand (Nicholls).”
from third reference.
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In the early 50s, there were 25-100 million cases per year, world wide (from 4th reference).
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Indonesia reported 11414 cases of yaws in 1982 (5th reference)
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there were 17609 cases of yaws reported in the solomon islands in 2001 (6th reference)
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I am not sure if this is on the internet, to be honest. Or if it is, it might be in an obscure place.