Syphilis Disease

I chose to write my professional paper on syphilis, with a focus on congenital syphilis (CS), not only because I plan on practicing mid-wifery, but because I enjoy anything that has to do with reproduction and congenital abnormalities.

"Thirty years ago today, the Washington Evening Star newspaper ran this headline on its front page: "Syphilis Patients Died Untreated."

The conquest of the New World was impacted by infectious diseases, which caused the population of Native Americans to decrease. These diseases were the number one cause of death of Native Americans. If one were to survive a disease, they would not be infected again because it meant they developed an immunity to it. Most diseases are caused by microparasites. There are two stages that occur until an infection leads to a disease. In the incubation stage symptoms aren’t always noticeable, however, a person can still infect others. The disease is more likely to spread in this stage. The latent stage is the time between the infection and the stage of the infectiousness. There were many diseases that infected the Indians during this time. The main diseases were

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.

Syphilis has been referred to as ‘the great imitator’ due to the wide range of symptoms, most of which other disease also have. The primary symptoms are red painless sores, this kind of sore is a chancre. After a few weeks the chancre may disappear, but the disease doesn’t. If left untreated secondary syphilis begins, a rash may appear along with flu-like symptoms.

Hi Sarah your post was very informative. I agree with you that a century ago syphilis was not required by law to be reported. In todays times, syphilis is not only required to be reported, but support systems are available to the public. As we know syphilis is a red alert disease that physicians need to report to the local health department (NYC Health, 2016). Today, New York State has a service that is called “Partner Services”, which did not exist a century ago (NYC Health, 2016). This is a free service that is provided by the “New York Department of Health”, that offers assistance to people that have been diagnosed with at sexually transmitted disease (STD) and or the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This service will assist those individuals

Syphilis is a highly contagious, sexually transmitted disease that can pass from person to person even by kiss occasionally. This disease can cause serious health hazards if not treating right away. What makes this disease dangerous is that it transmitted from sores that are not recognized as syphilis, and the person who carries this disease is unaware of it.

Syphilis is one of the highly infectious diseases that is transmitted by various means. Syphilis has been and continues to be an epidemiologic problem. Although the disease is regarded as a sexually transmitted disease, the disease is being transmitted in a variety of ways that involves contact with body fluids. The disease manifests itself in a variety of ways in its various stages and the impacts it causes in the body system varies depending on the stage of the disease. Syphilis is treated by administering the right antibiotics at any stage. However, the damage already done at late stages of treatment is irreversible. The disease has serious economic, social and psychological impacts.

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that is caused by a bacteria called Treponema Pallidum, which by the way in adults it is split into stages, there is Primary, Secondary, and Latent. Syphilis is believed to be due to the fact that people do prostitution, the decreasing use of condoms, and unsafe sex between men or having sex with multiple partners. This disease is a common one, in the year 2014 there was about 20,000 syphilis cases reported, it was the highest rate since 1994. The rate increased mostly due to cases among men, bisexual, gay and men that have relationships with other men. It is a disease found in many countries, including Canada, Europe and the United States.

In 2014, there were almost 63,450 total cases of syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a kind of bacteria called spirochete. Spirochete is a microscopic bacteria that can live almost anywhere in the body, which looks like a corkscrew of spiral. The most reported cases of syphilis in the United States are in men who have sex with men. During 2015-2016, the rate for men increased 14.7% and 35.7% among women. Even having more than one sexual partner increases the risk of getting syphilis. Syphilis if continuing to grow each year.

Thank you so much for the informative discussion post. I especially like the way you explained the signs and symptoms. This is because syphilis has many nonspecific signs and symptoms that may be overlooked by the inexperienced nurse practitioner (NP), or may basically be indistinguishable from other more common diseases (Klein, McLaud & Rogers, 2015).). It is very important that Nurse Practitioner gets familiarize with the different faces that syphilis may present because undiagnosed and untreated syphilis may lead to life-threatening complications such as hepatitis, stroke, and nervous system damage (Klein, McLaud & Rogers, 2015).

Tony, I agree this video was an eye-opening experience. It stirred a lot of emotions within me, I was angry, yet heartbroken. I will never understand how our government could do this experiment on these men, knowing they were committing murder. It was very disturbing to me when Jean mentioned in the video that “medical doctors wanted them to die from what they could discover from their bodies later.” I agree that autonomy, nonmaleficence, veracity, justice and fidelity were all ethical principles that were violated during this experiment. What frustrates me the most is Penicillin was discovered as a cure for syphilis, yet they did not use the antibiotic for treatment during this 40-year experiment. I believe the least they could have done for

In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles VIII of France when he invaded Naples in the first of the Italian Wars, and its subsequent impact on the peoples of Europe was devastating this was syphilis. Its symptoms were painful and repulsive the appearance of genital sores, followed by foul abscesses and ulcers over the rest of the body and severe pains. The remedies were few and hardly efficacious, the mercury in-unctions and fumigation that people endured were painful and many patients died of mercury poisoning. Up until the early 20th century it was believed that syphilis had been brought from America and the New World to the Old World by Christopher Columbus in 1493. In 1934 a new hypothesis

My hypothesis I came up with the lack of sexual education, the more prone people are to diseases. The reasons stated is from the lack of exposure, which hinders there knowledge. The number of syphilis statistics have increased due to the discovery of people’s unawareness about the identify of it.

Syphilis in particular remains a malady which there has been no real medical justification for the origin of it,