Yaws is a disabling bacterial infection found primarily in warm and humid tropical areas. The
World Health Organization strategy mandates an initial round of total community treatment …

The emergence of a new strain of a disease, or the introduction of an existing strain to a
naive population, can give rise to an epidemic. We consider how to maximise the probability …

At any one time, more than 160 million children worldwide are infected with skin sores. In
remote Aboriginal Australian communities, prevalence is as high as 40%. Skin sores …