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Tertiary syphilis
The final stage, also called "late" syphilis, begins 3 or more years after infection. About 3040% of infected people progress to this stage. At this stage, the person may no longer be contagious, but the bacteria reactivate, multiply, and spread throughout the body, damaging the heart, eyes, brain, nervous system, bones, and joints. Tumors may develop on skin, bone, testes, and other tissues; cardiovascular symptoms such as aortic aneurysm and aortic valve insufficiency may develop; degenerative central nervous system disease can produce dementia, tremors, ataxia (loss of muscle coordination), paralysis, and blindness. Damage is irreversible.
339 posted on
02/22/2003 11:00:58 AM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas)
To: PatrickHenry
Tumors may develop on skin, bone, testes, and other tissues; cardiovascular symptoms such as aortic aneurysm and aortic valve insufficiency may develop; degenerative central nervous system disease can produce dementia, tremors, ataxia (loss of muscle coordination), paralysis, and blindness. Damage is irreversible.I take it this comes from your personal experience? At what stage are you? Does it ever involve the gall bladder?
340 posted on
02/22/2003 1:08:50 PM PST by
AndrewC
(Full circle Darwininianism, a lesson in science.)
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