Yes! Yaws disease set to be eradicated from India

India is close to eradicating until now another disease On September 19, the country completes the mandatory five-year waiting period for yaws, a skin disease that frequently affects tribal populations, to be declared as eradicated If the whole thing goes well, yaws will be the third disease to be eradicated within independent India.

India has successfully eradicated two major diseases — smallpox and guinea larva (dracunculiasis). With the success of yaws, health authorities are at the moment encouraged to list another disease — lymphatic filariasis — for elimination by 2015, five years earlier than the deadline of 2020 set through the World Health Organisation.

For a disease to be certified by the WHO as “eradicated”, a country first desires to “eliminate” the disease Yaws was declared eliminated on September 19, 2006 behind there was not a single clinical case for three years since 2003 After a disease is eliminated in a exacting country, there should not be any clinical or latent cases for a full five years to make the disease eradication certificate by the WHO.