[neverdem]

Single-dose azithromycin versus benzathine benzylpenicillin for treatment of yaws in children in Papua New Guinea: an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised trial

Oral azithromycin for treatment of yaws

Treponema pallidum subsp pertenue

[Jonty30]

Does anybody want me to give them a raspberry?

Now that question takes on a whole new meaning.

[U-238]

You are seeing a lot of old diseases and some new ones coming from these countries. Some of these old diseases are resistant to conventional treatment.

[fhayek]

Firesign Theater, “Beat the Reaper”. This esoteric reference is the one and only time I have ever heard of this disease.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hark!!

[C210N]

NY Times ^ | February 13, 2012 | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

I see "paving the way" for another wealth transfer - the U.S. providing "free" condoms to all of Africa.

[Savage Beast]

"In the 1950s, huge campaigns relying on penicillin injections were run by the colonial powers, and the incidence of the disease was driven down by 95 percent."

Oh! The horrors of colonialism!

"A study of 250 children on Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea, published last month in The Lancet, showed that one pill of azithromycin — sold in the United States as Zithromax — was just as good as a penicillin shot at curing yaws.

"A Lancet editorial called it the most important yaws discovery in 50 years, and 'could facilitate the elimination of this ancient scourge.'”

More of this Western Civilization nonsense!

All civilizations are equal!

[luvbach1]

Yaws, meet The Black Death and Consumption (TB), and welcome to America. And say hello to Smallpox.

[Chickensoup]

Notice the end paragraph crack about how colonial powers in the fifties ended the disease using penicillin. And of course shared needle use MAY have led to hep C and AIDS.