Volume 31, Number 4—April 2025
Dispatch
Yaws Circulating in Nonhuman Primates, Uganda and Rwanda
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Figure 1. Primates in Kibale National Park, Uganda, showing clinical signs of yaws in study of yaws circulating in nonhuman primates, Uganda and Rwanda. A) Adult olive baboon (Papio anubis) with erosive lesion on nose. Photograph by Jessica Rothman. B) Juvenile eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) with papules and crusting on face. Photograph by Kevin Lee. C) Adult L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) with eroded/missing nose. Photograph by Nancy Stevens. D) Adult red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) with ulcerative lesions on hand. Photograph by Alicia Rich.
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