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. 2019 Feb 25;13(2):e0007125. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007125

Table 2. Number of cases of yaws per year (range) in general population by country or territory and sample period.

Subregion Country or territory Sample periods
Before 1970 After 1970
North America Canada 0
United States of America 0–3
Central American Isthmus Belize 0
Costa Rica 6–40
El Salvador 0–1
Guatemala 1–6 0–1
Honduras 0
Nicaragua 0–4
Panama 1–104 0–1
Latin Caribbean Cuba 189–4,000
Dominican Republic 1,046–3,827 0–9
French Guiana 0–17
Guadeloupe 100–501
Haiti 0–1,281,666 11–123
Martinique 6 2–40
Puerto Rico 0–94
Andean Area* and Brazil Colombia 8,622–68,725 1–573
Ecuador 541–13,651 0–868
Peru 555–2,797 1–23
Venezuela 9–10,235 0
Brazil 2–297,681 2–2,996
Southern Cone Argentina 0–3
Chile 0
Paraguay 0
Uruguay 0
Non-Latin Caribbean* Anguilla 8
Antigua and Barbuda 0–70 0–9
Aruba 0
Bahamas 0
Barbados 0 1
Curacao 0
Dominica 1,031–1,469 3–351
Grenada 360–1,500 0–15
Guyana 25–72 0–36
Jamaica 4–8,500 0–62
Montserrat 0
Saint Lucia 0–1,124 0–26
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 5–1,117 0–96
Suriname 73–1,436 0–45
Trinidad and Tobago 16–8,069 0–1,048
Virgin Islands (UK) 1

General Population includes information from studies that did not report the age of the cases or were conducted in adult population only.

*Bolivia and Saint Kitts and Nevis only reported prevalence data before 1970