Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by a bacterium. The bacteria that causes syphilis is called Treponema Pallidum. This STD is very similar to many others as it has the same symptoms of other STDs. Syphilis is passed through contact with syphilis sore. These sores are found the external genitals, vagina, and the anus. Yet, these sores can be found on the lips and the mouth of a person. These sores can transmit during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. If women are pregnant and they have syphilis, they have a great chance to pass it on to their newborn.
Syphilis can be spread in some ways but has ways that it can't be spread. Seating on the same toilet and touching the same doorknobs can't spread it. Swimming in the same pool, using the same bathtub or hot tub either, can spread syphilis. Using the same clothes or the same utensils can't spread it.
Syphilis has three stages of infection. The first isn't so harsh as it doesn't come into affect until an average of 21 days after been affected. The first sign is the chancre but that isn't the only sore that can be around. The chancre appears where you were infected on your body. This chancre is a small painless sore that later cures itself a few weeks later. Then syphilis advances to the second stage of the three stages of syphilis.
The second stage is started by the body having skin breaking into rashes. The rashes start as the chancre starts to fade away. The rashes appear on the palms of the hands and the bottom of the feet. The rash can appear on other parts of the body but might appear with different characteristics. These characteristics give an assumption there are infections of other diseases. The second stage also includes having fever, swollen lymph glands, a sore throat, headaches, muscle aches, and tiredness. While in the first or second stages of syphilis the disease can be spread when these symptoms are present.
The final stage of syphilis starts as the second stage symptoms leave.
The incidence of syphilis among homosexual men fell. ... Syphilis affects more than 80 percent of people. ... Three major types of symptoms may occur: benign tertiary syphilis, cardiovascular syphilis and neurosyphilis. ... Their are about 4 stages of Syphilis. ... Some signs of syphilis in an infant born with the congenital syphilis. ...
When the final stage, tertiary syphilis, does occur, it could be fatal. ... Syphilis can be diagnosed and treated with relative ease. ... The first three stages of syphilis are completely curable, and even in the last stage syphilis can be stopped. With the present medical technology to diagnose and treat syphilis, there is no excuse for anyone in the U.S. to suffer the last stage of syphilis. ... Early detection of syphilis disables the disease completely. ...
This study was based on the results of the 1930 survey that identified Macon County, Alabama as the county with the highest percentage of patients infected with syphilis out of the six states tested. These men were left untreated for forty years, being monitored by the physicians to document the phases of syphilis and its forms of spreading, in its natural, untreated state. ... The doctors told the men that they were suffering from, and being treated for, "bad blood," a nicer, more discreet way of saying syphilis. ... Technically, all morals taken away, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment may ...
The Muscovites called syphilis the Polish sickness. ... Perhaps as early as the first part of the 1600's, congenital syphilis was recognized as being distinct from adult onset syphilis. ... Syphilis is primarily a sexually transmitted disease (STD). ... By the 1700's syphilis had spread throughout the world. ... Mercury the earliest chemical treatments for syphilis. ...
Syphilis The disease is seen most frequently in the 20 to 39-year old age group, which is the most sexually active group. In adults the untreated syphilis progresses through three stages extending for many years, with long intervening periods of latency. ... Today, cases of syphilis allowed to progress to this stage have become uncommon. Congenital Syphilis One of the characteristics of syphilis is that it is able to cross the placenta and infect the infant. This will happen in untreated pregnant women and it is called congenital syphilis. ...
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment In 1932, the United States Public Health Service began an experiment dealing with the venereal disease, syphilis. ... The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was conducted on mainly illiterate sharecroppers in the late stages of syphilis. ... It also was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as supposed to whites. Some of the known effects of tertiary syphilis include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death (www.infoplease.com). ... Throughout the course of the experiment 28 men died directly of syphilis, 100 died of related comp...
Syphilis occurs in four stages. ... However, if a person is not treated, syphilis infection persists. Virtually everyone who is not treated for primary syphilis will develop secondary syphilis. ... Sings of second stage syphilis on the palms of hands. ... Tertiary Stage One in three people who have latent Syphilis develop the third stage of the disease. ...
He proposed a study which would follow African American men with untreated syphilis for roughly six to nine months. ... At the time, it was rumored that syphilis' effects were different in the African American male than the Caucasian male. ... This term did not specifically mean syphilis, as it encased multiple diseases besides syphilis. ... A short time after, the Public Health Service relaunched its national campaign to treat syphilis. ... The consequences of the untreated syphilis study can still be seen today. ...
