Cause Of Syphilis

There are four main questions that people ask when an outbreak of a new venereal disease occurs. How does it affect either the body or the mind? Who can contract the disease? Where did it come from? and What to do to treat it? So when a disease like syphilis came along in 1495, no country wanted to take or accept the blame for such a disgraceful disease. So instead, they named it after neighboring or enemy countries, till they all came to a consensus to blame Europeans. “The English called syphilis "The French Disease"; the French called it "The Italian Disease"; the Italians called it "The Turkish Disease"; the Russians called it "The Polish Disease"; and both the Japanese and the Indians termed it "The Portuguese Disease." Only the Spanish accepted any blame, referring to it as "The Spanish Disease.”(Daniel N. Leeson) But before I begin, you must be wondering, what is

There are four stages of syphilis, the primary stage, the secondary stage, the latent, and the tertiary stage or neurosyphilis. In the primary stage, syphilis causes small sores in or on the vagina, penis, mouth, or anus, but usually, emerges on the area of the body where the bacteria first entered. A range of symptoms such as fatigue, skin rash, and general aches and pains emerge in the secondary stage. In the latent stage, you don’t physically feel the symptoms or see signs. By the time it reaches the tertiary stage, which is rare, it means that the syphilis was left untreated which is when the spinal cord, heart, and brain, basically your major organs get infected, leading to life-threatening problems. How does syphilis affect the mind? In some cases, syphilis can infect the nervous system and cause a variety of symptoms, this is called neurosyphilis. These symptoms can include “mood swings, headache, paranoia, paralysis, personality changes, sensory deficits, and dementia.”(CDC, 2017) Unfortunately, neurosyphilis can occur at any of the four