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Syphilis is a rare sexually transmitted disease that causes serious health problems and complications if left untreated. This disease has stages and many symptoms. Both genders can contract it, but it can be cured and certainly prevented.

Throughout the ages, while the origins to this day continue to be debated, the strength and potency of the disease have rarely been in question. Syphilis, while not viewed as a huge threat due to a decreased number of cases in the mid-late 1990s, needs to be taken more seriously by the public because it is more dangerous than many realize, especially because it is extremely contagious, it is extremely elegant in the symptoms it produces, it has played a larger part in history than many would think, and there is a certain stigma which surrounds the disease, which in turn pushes individuals away from receiving the necessary testing.

The syphilis bacteria colonizes in sores that are located on the external genitalia, and is passed from person

Syphilis is spread from sexual activity. Symptoms of syphilis include; fever, sores, sore throat, and patchy hair loss. If left untreated for 10-30 years, syphilis can result in death. Doctors test for syphilis by testing your blood, or liquid from a sore. Syphilis can be treated and cured by taking certain antibiotics, but treatment may not undo any damage that has already been done. To prevent contracting syphilis stay with a partner who has been tested for syphilis and does not have syphilis. In the United States about 5 out of 100,000 people have

Syphilis is caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum and it is highly contagious disease which spread primarily by sexual activity, including oral and anal sex. Although this disease is spread from sores, the vast majority of those sores go unrecognized. The infected person is often unaware of the disease and unknowingly passes it on to his or her sexual partner or pregnant women with the disease can spread it to the baby. This disease, called congenital syphilis, can cause abnormalities or even death to the child; therefore, a serologic test for syphilis should be performed on all pregnant women at the first prenatal visit (Anderson et al., 2013).

Syphilis is an infection caused by a bacteria called Treponema Pallidum (CDC, 2004). This bacteria is extremely fragile, and cannot be spread during contact with

Syphilis is a bacterial infection usually spread by sexual contact. Syphilis starts as a painless sore usually on your genitals, rectum or mouth. Syphilis spreads from person to person via skin or mucous membrane contact with these sores.

According to the online article, “Syphilis Symptoms, Causes, and Diagnosis,” found in the WebMD website, states that syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that causes red sores in or around certain areas of the body. These blistering sores can be painless at the beginning, but as it progresses into a severe case they become a more painful infection. The article states that Treponema pallidum is the bacterium that is associated with syphilis. As syphilis is now a rare disease, the article explains how syphilis used to be one of the publics major health problems causing many long-term tragedies for people such as blindness, brain damage, and arthritis.

Syphilis is a horrendous infection which occurs in 4 phases, The first phase is minor; the individual will develop a chancre at the site of infection but it rarely painful and can therefore go unnoticed. The disease is most dangerous at this phase because the infected person is unaware of their conditions and will spread their unknown illness accidently. After the sore disappears phase two begins, which is a rash and white mucous sore that are shown in the mouth throat, rectum and genitalia. This is the most contagious stage. This stage is painful in the joints and bones and fatigue. Late-stage syphilis, will become apparent after the secondary symptoms has disappeared can come shortly after the secondary symptoms have disappeared.

Syphilis described as a sexually transmitted infection treponema pallidum bacterium, that can also pass straight through any scrape or cut into the bloodstream. A person can get syphilis just by touching the sore of an infected person. Thus, as with chlamydia and gonorrhea, syphilis according to the Center for Control Disease that it was over 36,00 new cases in 2008 with worldwide its about 12 million cases in Africa and Asia. (King et al.). Syphilis is more common in African American; there were over 100 million deaths worldwide due to syphilis. Syphilis can cause rashes from your head to your feet can cause blindness and as well as death. (King et al.).

What is Syphilis? And, how can you contract it? Syphilis is an STD (a sexually transmitted disease) that is highly contagious; due to the fact that many times it goes unnoticed. Syphilis is caused by the bacteria Treponema Pallidum and affects both females and males. Syphilis is spread by having vaginal, anal or oral sex and remains where you contracted it. Syphilis can also be spread from a pregnant mother to an unborn baby.

Etiology: Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by T. Pallidum, a thin spiral organism of the Treponema species of spirochaetales. Syphilis is almost always caused by sexual contact with infected lesions, but can rarely be spread through nonsexual personal contact, infection in-utero, blood transfusion, or organ transplantation.

Syphilis is a sexual transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. The disease can be treated easily, but if left untreated it can cause severe complications. During vaginal, anal, or oral sexual activity it is spread by direct contact with sores. Syphilis has four different stages that has different symptoms for each. Primary syphilis is usually associated with sores on the site of infection. Patients with secondary syphilis may have a skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, and fever. During the latent phase there are no signs and symptoms. The complications are from the tertiary syphilis which can affect the major organs of the body. Syphilis is a serious risk to the public because most of the early symptoms can be mistaken to

Syphilis is caused by a bacterium called Treponema pallidum, which is known to be a subspecies of the pallidum. This bacterium is very thin and has a corkscrew shape. It is classified as the family of a spirochete. According to Lori, Edmund, and Tramont in an article tittled Treponema Pallidum (Syphilis) “ It is a member of the family Spirochaeticea and is related to other spirochete genera which have the capacity to infect man, namely Borrelia and Leptospira.” The length is about 6 - 20 μm and has a diameter of about 0.25 μm. The thin shape and it’s motility aids the bacterium in the penetration of it’s host mucous membrane or where there is lession on the surface of the skin. This bacterium reproduce rapidly in great numbers as soon as it creates the chancre in the host. With this it multiplies and spread aiming for the lymph nodes in the host body.

It is caused by Treponema pallidum. It usually effects into stages and can be cure through its medicine but those medicines only work for it, not for the other health related problems. It is transmitted through the direct contact with the syphilis sores. The areas of the body that are most common to contract the bacteria are “regions of the body containing mucous membranes”, such as the “nasal lining, rectum, urethra, and vagina (Shmaefsky, Brian 2009).” This disease can be pass through from pregnant moms to the infants. According to the PBS, NewsHour report, Gay and bisexual men are more prone to syphilis and in the report, it is noted that 82% cases in man are gay and bisexual men. The third common diseases are Gonorrhea, which can affect any membrane of the body from rectum to genital. It can also be transmitted to the babies of infected