Syphilis: Symptoms, Disgraceful Disease

According to the Journal Of Medicine “From the very beginning, Syphilis has been stigmatized, disgraceful disease” ever since the discovery of Syphilis in the early 1400’s. Syphilis originated in Europe in 1400’s. Ever since the outbreak of the disease once a country like France got it they would blame the neighbor country like Great Britain for having the virus. Syphilis has many symptoms/stages, treatment, cures, and plans for the virus. Syphilis has many ways to be transmitted by oral, vaginal, and anal sex. Also another way by transmitting syphilis to another person is if a pregnant woman got syphilis it can infect her child with the disease. Syphilis isn’t really a deadly disease if you treat it on time syphilis has three stages as you progress more up to the stage it gets worse and worse. The first stage of syphilis, creates multiple sores that can last for weeks. In stage two the disease can create more sores, but this time it can create sores in the private areas, rashes, and major hair loss. Third stage of syphilis is the most latest part of the disease if not treated, occurs after 10-30 years of having the infection which causes your body to get paralysis(loss the ability to move). There has been very few cases of people who had reached stage three.
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Ernest Hendon the last survivor of the Tuskegee syphilis dies in 2006. Out of the 400 black men tested only a very few survived. At the time of his death the CDC would release a apology video days later to the public for the study of the disease. The president of the CDC speaks out at the conference and says “The eight men who are survivors of the syphilis study at Tuskegee are a living link to a time not so very long ago that many Americans would prefer not to remember, but we dare not forget.” on May 16,