The fact is that they scarcely believe yaws to be a disease at all.
Yaws (thoko) occurring in children of tubercular parents is probably intensified, and children whose constitution has been weakened by a prolonged attack of yaws are more prone to die of some form of tuberculosis.
Yaws is communicated by the inoculation of virus from one of its characteristic raspberry-like sores to the abraded surface of the skin of another person.
It has also been noticed that adults who bear the scars of severe yaws in childhood are more prone to contract some form of tuberculosis in after-life.
It forms in time a crust or scab, the reddish appearance of which is very characteristic of the yaws eruption.
Young Leelikie tried to let a yell out o' him for his daddy to come an' he'p him, but his yaws was yust dat bunged up wid gum dere wahnt no openin' dem needer.
An' you can see to dis day how all de long hair was tore off his paws an' his yaws so bad it never grow long any more," ended Old Hendrik solemnly.
Sure it's a healthy climate, and you'll enjoy it as soon as you get over your first attack of yaws or fever.
Mrs. London and Jack came down with fever, and their yaws grew worse.
Of course, the fever may hold off the yaws for awhile--depends on which comes first.
Here I received competent medical treatment, under which my yaws rapidly healed.
By this time, our yaws and Jack's undiagnosed illness were so bad that we were anxiously waiting for the steamer.
In addition to the yaws and the fever, a new trouble came into the life of the Snark family.
The traders and beach-combers could diagnose yaws and fever, but not this.
I had scratched my foot that morning, and careful that the yaws did not get started again in the wound, I was washing the cut every half-hour with permanganate of potash and mercury.
I went to a doctor, who burnt out my yaws with caustic potash.
As a consequence, my yaws and fever grew more troublesome, and I was forced to go to bed.
And some two or three weeks from now, when it is well and you have a scar that you will carry to your grave, just forget about the purity of your blood and your ancestral history and tell me what you think about yaws anyway.
Martin, in despair, has taken to horse-doctoring his yaws with bluestone and to blessing the Solomons.
Then there are yaws and many other skin ulcerations.
At the present moment of writing I have five yaws on my hands and three more on my shin.
I don't know whether they are yaws or not--a physician in Fiji told me they were, and a missionary in the Solomons told me they were not; but at any rate I can vouch for the fact that they are most uncomfortable.
A few days later, however, he reappeared with thirteen victims of yaws from his home town, having meanwhile twice covered on foot the great distance which separates Barlig from Bontoc, and assembled and brought in his fellow-sufferers.
A peculiar and shockingly disfiguring disease known as yaws occurs somewhat infrequently in the Philippine lowlands and is very prevalent in a number of places in the highlands.
For some time we were unable to persuade any victims of yaws to undergo treatment, but finally we found one at Barlig who was guilty of a minor criminal offence, arrested him, and took him to Bontoc.
But presently the canoe-man with the yaws was dragged up, and, in his own phrase, was bidden to act as "linguister.
A bush path opened out ahead of them, winding, narrow, uneven, and the man with the yaws went ahead and gave a lead.
The man with theyaws put the question timidly enough, and the witch-doctor burst into a great guffaw of laughter.
The man with the yaws explained: "Dem Belgians make war-palaver often.
Nowadays every child has yaws as a matter of course, though, being a contagious disease, it might easily be stamped out by isolation.
Yaws became serious, but that was a trifle as compared with dysentery; and pleurisy, pneumonia, fever and dropsy had also to be reckoned with.
In the last century Winterbottom and Hume describe yaws in Africa, Hume calling it the African distemper.
The first mention of the yawsdisease is by Oviedo, in 1535, who met with it in San Domingo.
Yaws is derived from a Carib word, the meaning of which is doubtful.
Crocker takes his account of yaws from Numa Rat of the Leeward Islands, who divides the case into four stages: incubation, primary, secondary, and tertiary.
It differs from yaws in the absence of febrile symptoms, in its unity, its occurrence often on the feet and the backs of the hands, its duration, and the deep scar which it leaves.
Yaws may be defined as an endemic, specific, and contagious disease, characterized by raspberry-like nodules with or without constitutional disturbance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yaws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
