27 Feb 1530 Jahr - Treponema pallidum (syphilis)

Beschreibung:

Syphilis was named after a shepherd in a poem in 1530 describing a man with the disease. The poem was called Syphilis Sive Morbus Gallicus, by Girolamo Fracastoro

Symptoms:

Primary Syphilis
-9 to 90 days after exposure
-lesion in spot of infection
-Highly infectious

Secondary Syphilis
-4 to 8 weeks after primary
-lesions spread evenly with collections in feet and hands.
-Malaise, fever, hair loss, headache

Tertiary Syphilis
-2-40 years after initial infection
-chronic inflammation
-Gumma, Neurological, and cardiovascular syphilis

Treatment:
-Treated with penicillin
-can be avoided with proper protection

History:
-Columbus and his men contracted it in 1493 and spread it to the Americas.
-1926 The Tuskegee Study
-1946 Guatemalan Syphilis Study

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