Not everyone with syphilis reaches this stage because the disease still remains “latent” for the rest of his or her life. However, people come to this final stage of syphilis when syphilis unknowingly decides to wake up and continue to attack other organs any time after the first year of infection. It is unknown to scientists the causes or biological reasons of why the bacteria becoming active after the latent stage. What makes this stage different from the previous stages is that the disease starts attacking and penetrating into the nervous system. The invasion of the nervous system causes abnormalities in the cerebrospinal fluid, elevated white blood cells, etc. Also, the invasion of the nervous systems, following the primary or secondary stage of
Not everyone with syphilis reaches this stage because the disease still remains “latent” for the rest of his or her life. However, people come to this final stage of syphilis when syphilis unknowingly decides to wake up and continue to attack other organs any time after the first year of infection. It is unknown to scientists the causes or biological reasons of why the bacteria becoming active after the latent stage. What makes this stage different from the previous stages is that the disease starts attacking and penetrating into the nervous system. The invasion of the nervous system causes abnormalities in the cerebrospinal fluid, elevated white blood cells, etc. Also, the invasion of the nervous systems, following the primary or secondary stage of