Details:

Alternative Title:
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publisher's site:
http://dx.crossref.org/10.3201/eid1706.ET1706
Description:
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 medicina Brasiliense in 1648. Because lesions associated with the disease resemble berries, another common name for yaws is frambesia tropica, from the French framboise, meaning raspberry.
Subject:
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Etymologia
History, 17th Century
Humans
News And Notes
Terminology As Topic
Yaws
Yaws

Source:
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 17(6):1082.;
Document Type:
Journal Article;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:26b757158cac58b7c2f34565c63bb904be5965aca7332e21148a85113b168f0d
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Supporting Files

• 	ET-1706_finalET.nxml	txt
  	license.txt	txt

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