Emerti Village in the Upper Bamu LLG of Daru, Western Province, is the village where alarms about the Yaws disease were raised early last month.
According to the World Health Organisation, Yaws is a chronic infection that affects mainly the skin, bone and cartilage.
The disease occurs mainly in poor communities in warm, humid, tropical areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
At the Emerti Station Health Centre, 20 suspected cases were attended to in the last month.
Most of the cases were from children between the ages of 5 to 16.
