Syphilis Household

Syphilis is a chronic infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete bacterium. The causative agent of the disease is transmitted through blood, body fluids or from mother to fetus. The infection occurs through sexual intercourse with a carrier of the pathogen, and a household route of infection is also possible - when there is contact between the mucous membrane (lip, mucous membrane) of a healthy person and the mucous membrane of a sick person. Even in Ancient Egypt, patients with syphilis were isolated from healthy people, however, they were in no hurry to get rid of them. As payment for this type of help, they received alms. In the 5th century AD, after numerous studies and discoveries to combat this disease, it began to be called the disease of “voluptuousness.”

Before the advent of antibiotics in the thirties of the 20th century, the mortality rate for patients was 50%. IN