Three major types of symptoms may occur: benign tertiary syphilis, cardiovascular syphilis and neurosyphilis. ... Neurosyphilis affects about 5 percent of all people with untreated syphilis. Three main types are meningovascular neurosyphilis, paretic neurosyphilis, tabetic neurosyphilis. ... Open sores or rashes are typical symptoms are the infectious stage. ... The symptoms of syphilis can appear sporadically or not at all, because they so closely resembles the symptoms of other diseases, diagnosis usually calls for a blood test. ...

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Flu-like symptoms start to occur, and can come and go for years. ... These symptoms usually disappear in 3 to 12 weeks. ... The disease then enters a latent stage in which no outward signs or symptoms occur, however, the bacteria are active inside your body, multiplying and attacking internal organs. ... When second stage symptoms completely disappear, the disease is no longer infectious. ... A special kind of syphilis, which occurs in nearly 15 percent of the tertiary cases, is called neurosyphilis. ...

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The location, number, and effects of these lesions are extremely varied, producing symptoms that may imitate many other chronic diseases, depending on where these gummas appear (hence the name "The Great Imitator" that has been given to syphilis). ... Some of the symptoms of neurosyphilis include paresis(incomplete paralysis), tabes dorsalis ( a shuffling walk induced by sensory tract degenerations in the cord), deafness, blindness, and progressive mental deterioration. ...

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In Capone's younger days he would often cheat on his wife with prostitutes, this lead to him contracting syphilis which is a chronic infectious disease transmitted through sexual intercourse, the symptoms are fevers, hair loss and skin eruptions, and when left to long can lead to neurosyphilis, which is and infection of the brain or spinal cord. It is quite frequent for the symptoms to go away making you think, there's nothing wrong. ... His wife took care of him until he passed away in 1947 at the young age of 48 due to neurosyphilis, cardiac arrest and pneumonia. ...

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Most diagnosed will experience relapses in which the number of symptoms is increased. ... Physicians need to rule out other possibilities such as stroke, neurosyphilis, spinocerevellar ataxias, diabetes, Sjogren"s disease, a vitamin B-12 deficiency, and other infections before considering MS because there are no definitive tests for this disease.Other symptoms of MS are: ·Bladder and bowel dysfunction ·Muscle stiffness ·Depression ·Dizziness ·Fatigue ·Headaches ·Unusual clumsiness, leg dragging, dead feeling limbs ·Itching ·Abnormal or choppy gait ·Speech and swallowing problems ·T...

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Howard Hughes Throughout the 20th century, it has been the media's job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most of his life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of the mid-20th century was greatly attributed to Hughes's skills as an industrialist, aviator, and motion-picture producer combined with his enormous wealth, intellect, and achievement. ...

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