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Yaws used to be an extremely common disease in the tropical parts of the world, with millions of cases spreading from the West Indies to the coastal and riverine areas of Central and South America, across the whole of central Africa to Sri Lanka, southern India, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific islands. At one time, it appeared in Scotland as sibbens or the Scottish yaws. Widespread eradication campaigns by WHO and UNICEF during the 1950s were so successful that many authorities believed the disease to be almost extinct. Throughout the 1970s, however, the condition slowly but surely returned to its original homelands.
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Pettit, J.H.S., Parish, L.C. (1984). Yaws. In: Manual of Tropical Dermatology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8292-8_4
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