He travelled on an A.T.C.M. Fellowship in 1958-1959 to Syracuse, New York and Virus Labs in Albany, New York, U.S.A where he worked on Yaws, Endemic typhus and Cholera.
Examination of remains of Homo erectus from Kenya, that are about 1.6 million years old, has revealed signs typical of yaws.
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The first unambiguous description of yaws was made by the Dutch physician Willem Piso.
Yaws, a tropical infection of the skin, bones and joints
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