***that could get much worse, even fatal, if untreated.***
As in skin leassions, bones in the hands and toes begin to disolve, bones and cartilege in the nose begins to disolve you end up with no nose, leaking skin leasions, stubbs where fingers were. I saw them in SE Asia, Thailand 1969 begging for baht (5 cents).
Pray for a cure.