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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