What Is Syphilis?
Many people don’t know they are infected with syphilis because as the disease progresses, the symptoms go away on their own. Untreated syphilis is very dangerous and can kill you.
Many people don’t know they are infected with syphilis because as the disease progresses, the symptoms go away on their own. Untreated syphilis is very dangerous and can kill you.
If you have syphilis and you don’t get treatment, the disease progresses in stages and progressively inflicts more irreversible damage on your body. Recognize the symptoms at each stage of syphilis and get tested for the disease if you’re sexually active, and especially if you are a man who has sex with men.
The FDA granted a waiver that makes it possible for health care clinics and community outreach centers to administer a syphilis test that provides accurate results in 12 minutes.
Follow the instructions in this guide to anonymous STD testing to get an accurate and anonymous test for sexually-transmitted diseases and HIV. The guide shows you how to protect your identity and to destroy all evidence that you even had a test. You might be able to get anonymous treatment over the phone from a doctor, depending on the STDs for which you test positive.
Syphilis — the Great Imitator Syphilis is known as the “great imitator” among sexually-transmitted diseases and infections because it has the same symptoms as many other more common infections, and the symptoms will go away on their own while the …
Syphilis Test Data In 1986, there were 9 reported cases of early latent syphilis infection per 100,000 people. That number rose to 21 cases in 1991 and then consistently declined each year. In 2000 and 2001, the rate was down …
Ocular syphilis is a complication of primary or secondary syphilis that can cause blindness. Syphilis can be cured — get tested!
Researchers developed an iPhone dongle that can test for HIV and syphilis with a single drop of blood and produce results in about 15 minutes.