What Are the Symptoms of Syphilis in Different Stages?
In today’s health situation, you never know if you are infected with a certain disease. So it is vital that you have knowledge about the STDs and their manifestations before its too late. Syphilis, or in lay terms bad blood, lues, pox, and syph, is a systemic, highly infectious STD. It became less prevalent after the advent of penicillin, but the disease has been rising since about 1960, and it is one of the most commonly reported communicable diseases in the United States. It is caused by the delicate motile spirochete Treponema pallidum. Although it cannot survive long outside the body, Syphilis is highly infectious. Sexual transmission occurs only when the mucocutaneous of primary and secondary Syphilis are present. Adolescents, young adults, African American men, and homosexual men are at greatest risk. Treponema pallidum enters the body through intact mucous membranes or abraded skin, almost exclusively by direct sexual contact. After entry, the organisms multiply locally and diss
