STD of the Week: Syphillis
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Syphilis is a bacterial infection, usually considered a sexually transmitted disease. Transmitted through personal contact, it usually first appears in the genitals or on other parts of the body that have had contact with an infected person.
Syphilis can be successfully treated with antibiotics. However, if left untreated, a syphilis infection can eventually infect the heart, brain and central nervous system.
For further information and treatment, iVillage's TotalHealth Syphillis page has information
Known and suspected notable syphilis-infected people in previous centuries:
Keys: S - suspected case; †- died of syphilis
- Idi Amin (1928-2003) Ugandan dictator S
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) German dictator S
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), poet â€
- Isabella Beeton (1836-1865), author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management S
- Karen Blixen (1885-1962), writer
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), poet â€
- António Botto (1897-1959), poet
- Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890), writer
- Beau Brummell (1778-1840), fashion arbiter
- Al Capone (1899-1947), gangster â€
- Randolph Churchill,Lord (1849-1895), British statesman and father of Winston S. Churchill S
- Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567), second husband of Mary Queen of Scots
- Frederick Delius (1862-1934), composer â€
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), composer
- King Edward VI (1538-1553), King of England and third Tudor monarch S
- Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889), poet S
- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), painter â€
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), poet â€
- King Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England and second monarch of the Tudor dynasty S
- Howard Hughes (1905-1976), aviator, billionaire
- Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584), Czar of Russia
- Scott Joplin (1867/8-1917), composer â€
- Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), communist leader S
- Édouard Manet (1832-1883), painter â€
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), writer â€
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), nineteenth-century German philosopher S
- Jack Pickford (1896-1933), actor â€
- Martin Alonzo Pinzon (1441-1493) captain of the Pinta â€
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828), composer S
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856), composer S
- Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), Czech composer S
- Tongzhi (1856-1875), ninth Manchu emperor in the Qing dynasty S
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), painter â€
- John Wilmot (1647-1680), 2nd Earl of Rochester, writer, debaucher S
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), writer S
- Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), composer â€
- Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910), painter
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