Syphilis Disease Analysis

Syphilis is a chronic contagious disease that is spread mainly through sexual intercourse. It is caused by a bacterium called Treponema pallidum that is the subspecies of the pallidum. Syphilis is diseases that cause long-term effects when not attended to at the early stages of the infection. In the year 2014, 63,450 cases were reported as the new people affected by the disease (CDC, 2014). During 1990, the cases were rare as he heterosexual men and women were the only ones affected. The most affected people by the disease are the male because of the increasing cases of homosexuality.
Syphilis develops different signs and symptoms depending on the stage it has reached. During the first stage, syphilis develops a painless sore on the site where the bacteria entered the body. This symptom usually reveals itself after three weeks of infection. There is swelling of the lymph nodes in the area of infection and around the genitals. The sore may heal, but the disease remains in the body and can pass the disease to another person. A pimple characterizes the second stage 3-12 weeks after the sore healed (Mayo Clinic Staff, …show more content…
Syphilis is not the only sexually transmitted disease that has shown a drastic increase, gonorrhea and chlamydia have an increasing infection as well (Swanson, 2016). In the public health perspective, syphilis has become serious because many partners do not see it as a threat, thus take it recklessly. Some epidemiologists like Sarah Kid says that a possible cause for the simultaneous increase of the disease is the App dating whereby people communicate with an individual with a dark sexual history and end up besieging without the knowledge (Marple, Ling, & Pollack, 2014). Another thing that might have contributed to the rise of the disease is a lack of sex educations in the schools and all learning institutions composing of sexually active