Tularemia is a plague-like disease of rabbits, ticks, man, and other animals caused by the rod-shaped bacterium Pasteurella tularensis. Human cases have been reported, in recent years, in 43 of the United States. It also occurs in Canada, Mexico, Eur...

From either the Carib yaya, for sore or lesion, or yaw, an African word for berry. The term yaws was in common use by the 17th Century, when Dutch physician Willem Piso provided one of the earliest recorded descriptions of yaws in South America in De...