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Syphilis Logan Astle

Syphilis Logan Astle. Nasty lil' Bugger!!. What is it???. Symptom checker on about.com says:

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Syphilis Logan Astle

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  1. Syphilis Logan Astle

  2. Nasty lil' Bugger!!

  3. What is it??? • Symptom checker on about.com says: Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a type of bacteria called Treponema pallidum. In its earliest stage, syphilis produces an open sore (ulcer) that leaks fluid filled with syphilis bacteria. Syphilis can be transmitted by contact with this ulcer or other infectious sores that form later in the disease, usually during vaginal, oral or anal sex. If untreated, syphilis moves through a series of stages that affect different parts of the body.

  4. How does this play out??? • painless open sore called a chancre (pronounced "shanker") • skin rash that appears anywhere from 2 to 12 weeks after the chancre disappears. Can be all over body or one spot. • flu-like symptoms such as mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat, as well as patchy hair loss, swollen lymph glands throughout the body, and other problems

  5. MORE??? • HERE 40% of cases stop and are cured on their own. • bacteria damage the heart, eyes, brain, nervous system, bones, joints, or almost any other part of the body. This stage can last for years, or even for decades. • If you are unlucky enough to die from one of these things you experience mental illness and blindness

  6. But to who? • Believed to have infected 12 million people in 1999 with greater than 90% of cases in the developing world. Since the year 2000, rates of syphilis have been increasing in the USA, UK, Australia and Europe primarily among homosexual men. Increased rates among heterosexuals have occurred in China and Russia since the 1990s.

  7. Where does it hide? • It starts out around the genitals but into the second stage it can infect the entire body and resulting contact can pass on the disease.

  8. How dangerous? • Because the treatment now is pretty simple if caught early but what happens to you is nasty enough to earn it's three stars.

  9. Doctors Arsenal of Awesome • Prevention, which can be done only by serological testing. • In 25% of cases, particularly in women, the bacterium seldom turns into a disease and dies on its own. If, however, syphilis successfully develops, the second, third, and fourth stages call for long-lasting penicillin injections, particularly penicillin regimes that employ intramuscular injections.

  10. Those darned cells!! • Syphillis is an invasive bacterial infection, which means that when a person becomes infected, it wants to take over the entire body. It does not stay localized in the genitals or pelvic region of its victims. It works on a cellular level to take over the body. • Not much discussion on what it does on a cellular level but what I can gather it hooks into the plasma of blood cells and multiplies.

  11. Just for the fun of seeing your faces!!!

  12. Sources • http://symptomchecker.about.com/od/Diagnoses/syphilis.htm • http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wadsworth.org/databank/images/tn_tpal_original.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wadsworth.org/databank/treponem.htm&usg=__Cc3cmlkEfDwdTb_lNhl1dKZcQ1s=&h=316&w=600&sz=42&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=c57WV8Rj0eGxSM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=196&ei=2xljTaPfDZO4sQOVyoG-CA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsyphilis%2Belectron%2Bmicrograph%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D775%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=485&vpy=114&dur=4852&hovh=163&hovw=310&tx=153&ty=112&oei=2xljTaPfDZO4sQOVyoG-CA&page=1&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0 • http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/720/main.html#SymptomsofSyphilis • http://ezinearticles.com/?Syphilis-Bacteria---Fight-it-Today!&id=2064658

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