‘Historical relic’ form of syphilis may be making a comeback: experts

Posted: June 7, 2012 by Ty in Spirituality

Reblogged from National Post | News:

Doctors have long considered neurosyphilis - the late-stage, brain-related phase of the sexually transmitted infection - as a historical relic, the “disease of the century” in the 1800s but all but beaten down by antibiotics.

Now, though, the illness blamed for the madness of historical figures from Friedrich Nietzsche to Vladimir Lenin to Al Capone appears on the rise again in Canada and elsewhere, some experts believe.

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