Pathol. [app. a Dutch Negro name, from Du. kraauw scratch, kraauw-en to scratch, to claw.] A malignant species of pustulous itch, prevalent on the African coast, especially about Sierra Leone.
1863. R. F. Burton, Wanderings in W. Africa, II. 91–2, note. A bad kind of scabies, commonly written Craw Craw … not confined to mankind; goats, and other animals, often die of it.
1891. Nature, 20 Aug., 367/2. A papulo-vesicular skin disease called craw-craw is endemic in the sleeping sickness region…. O’Neil found a filaria-like parasite in the vesicles of craw-craw.
