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Syphilis


             Syphilis is a disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
             Treponema enters the body through the vagina, mouth or through the skin. The bacterium .
             reaches the nearby lymph node within hours, spreading through the body via the blood. .
             Syphilis is a bacteria not a virus, so it can be treated. "Syphilis can also infect a pregnant .
             fetus, causing problems and birth defects(Human Disease 938)".
             During World War II, a number of people with syphilis was discovered.
             The number of cases steadily fell until 1960, cases dramatically increased again. .
             Throughout their time, a numerous cases of syphilis were found in homosexual men. .
             "Numbers remained the same until the mid-1980s(Human Disease 938)". Because of the .
             AIDS epidemic and the results of practicing safe sex.
             The incidence of syphilis among homosexual men fell. While new cases .
             of syphilis among crack-cocaine users-primarily women or their showed a rapid increase .
             also affecting their newborn. "Focused programs of control have again reduced the .
             incidence of syphilis in most areas in the United States(Human Disease 939)". A person .
             who has been cured and can become re-infected with syphilis usually within 1 to 13 .
             weeks, but the average is 3 to 4 weeks. .
             Treponema pallidum progresses through several stages: the primary, .
             secondary, latent, and tertiary stages. "This infection may persist for many years and .
             uncommonly causes heart damage, brain damage, and death(Human Disease 939)". A .
             painless sore or ulcer (chancre) appears at the infection site. The chancre often appears .
             on the penis, or on the vagina. Also, the chancre can appear on the anus, rectum, lips, .
             .
             tongue, throat, cervix or fingers, rarely other parts of the body. The first stage of syphilis .
             involves the breakout of a sore. A person afflicted with syphilis has only one sore, but .
             several sores can develop. A chancre begins as a small, red, raised area. Soon it turns .


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