Prioritizing surveillance activities for certification of yaws eradication based on a review and model of historical case reporting.

• Main Authors: Christopher Fitzpatrick (Author), Kingsley Asiedu (Author), Anthony W Solomon (Author), Oriol Mitja (Author), Michael Marks (Author), Patrick Van der Stuyft (Author), Filip Meheus (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The World Health Organization (WHO) has targeted yaws for global eradication. Eradication requires certification that all countries are yaws-free. While only 14 Member States currently report cases to WHO, many more are known to have a history of yaws and some of them...