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   From: yak@inbox1.com   
      
   most rightists refuse to wear masks and condoms.  Trump's   
   mind is eaten away by syph.   
      
      
      
   Your Brain Is Slowly Eaten Alive   
      
   In later stages of the disease, syphilis has been known to   
   attack all of the vital organs, including the brain. Some   
   victims have been left in a vegetative state, while others -   
   like crime lord Al Capone - suffered the fate of completely   
   losing their personalities and essentially becoming Lenny   
   from Of Mice and Men.   
      
   Capone contracted syphilis when he was 18, but ignored the   
   disease, allowing it to ravage his body and brain. By the   
   time he was interned at Alcatraz, he was barely the same   
   person who had run one of the largest crime syndicates of the   
   20th century. Prisoners and workers at the island jail noted   
   that Capone would spend most of his time cowering in his cell   
   and talking to himself like a baby.   
      
   After he was finally released from prison Capone spent the   
   majority of his final years in an estate near Miami casting a   
   fishing pole into his swimming pool, hoping to catch   
   something. He eventually died from complications related to a   
   brain hemorrhage. Photo: Internet Archive Book Images /   
   flickr / No known copyright restrictions   
   The Cartilage In Your Nose Disintigrates   
      
   ...Maybe. Syphilis is the Bo Jackson of STDs, meaning that it   
   can pretty much do whatever it wants. One strange symptom of   
   syphilis is the giant hole that's left in your face where the   
   disease has eaten away the flesh and cartilage of the nose.   
   It's now known as saddle-nose deformity, and it mostly   
   appears in victims of congenital syphilis (the syphilis   
   you're born with). In sixteenth-century Europe, the   
   syphilitic nose became a mark of shame, a visible sign of the   
   moral and bodily corruption that stigmatized its unfortunate   
   victims. Photo: Internet Archive Book Images / flickr / No   
   known copyright restrictions   
   Strange Lumps Appear On Your Body   
      
   One symptom that can occur years after the contraction of   
   syphilis is a series of painless lumps that appear across the   
   body. Unfortunately, the lumps don't stay painless for long -   
   left untreated, they can quickly become scabbed over and   
   secrete a nasty pus that makes every day life an excruciating   
   hurdle. In 2015, a 38 year old man in China finally went to   
   his doctor years after catching the disease and became a   
   marvel of modern medicine when he was put into immediate   
   treatment, curing the ulcers and leaving gaping holes in his   
   body. Photo: DeveionPhotography / flickr / CC-BY 2.0   
   You Could Become Paralyzed   
      
   One of the scariest things to think about is the possibility   
   of being totally paralyzed and unable to communicate with our   
   loved ones. Most people who suffer from syphilis-related   
   paralysis get that way because they refused to seek treatment   
   and found themselves locked into the later stages of the   
   disease.   
      
   The largest outbreak of syphilitic paralysis occurred in the   
   Victorian era when hundreds of people (mostly men in their   
   30s and 40s) received the diagnosis of general paralysis of   
   the insane. In the 19th century, no one wanted to admit that   
   syphilis was the cause of the paralysis, but in 1905 doctors   
   finally came to the conclusion that what they were seeing was   
   untreated syphilis that had attacked the brain and rendered   
   its victims utterly helpless.   
   Photo: Internet Archive Book Images / flickr / No known   
   copyright restrictions   
   Your Body Becomes A Pus Factory   
      
   If you think the idea of oozing sores is gross, then you   
   should probably avoid having your body covered with lesions   
   that do nothing but secrete pus and make your life a living   
   hell. The worst lesions appear during the final tertiary   
   stage of syphilis and you never know where they'll pop up.   
   Even if the initial canker sore that warned of the coming   
   body apocalypse was on your genitals, that doesn't mean that   
   your tertiary sores will be there. They could suddenly grow   
   across your face, or - if you're lucky - somewhere that can   
   be covered by a thick coat. Photo: Internet Archive Book   
   Images / flickr / No known copyright restrictions   
   Disappearing Lesions   
      
   The biggest indicator of second-stage syphilis is the   
   collection of massive lesions that form on your genitals,   
   anal cavities, and anywhere that you were putting the   
   syphilis stick 20 to 90 days after contraction of the   
   disease. And while it seems like lesions are the worst thing   
   that can happen to your body, it's actually much worse when   
   they go away. When the lesions vanish, it is the beginning of   
   the latent period of syphilis that can take years to kill   
   you, but don't let that be comforting. While the disease   
   isn't showing up outside of your body anymore, it's doing   
   irreparable damage to your internal organs. Photo: Internet   
   Archive Book Images / flickr / No known copyright   
   restrictions You Get A Rash   
      
   When your body begins to deteriorate from syphilis, one of   
   the most obvious signs is the full-body rash that takes over   
   your skin. The rash initially appears as psoriasis, or a   
   regular skin irritation, before becoming full-blown   
   violaceous circular papulosquamous lesions. Usually, the rash   
   covers the entire body in a symmetric pattern and is   
   accompanied by a low-grade fever, generalized adenopathy,   
   headache, malaise, and a mucocutaneous rash. So, if you   
   suddenly develop a symmetrical rash across your whole body,   
   you should get to the doctor immediately before you pass the   
   tipping point from super sick to almost dead. Photo:   
   Dboybaker / flickr / CC-BY 2.0 The Eyes Tend To Go   
      
   Complications from a syphilis infection can affect virtually   
   all ocular structures. On the ocular surface, syphilis can   
   cause conjunctivitis, episcleritis, or scleritis - which are   
   all ways of saying that you'll have gross, red, puffy eyes.   
   And that's just on the outside. It's possible to contract   
   uveitis, a version of conjunctivitis that occurs inside of   
   your eye and can cause severe vision loss. The long-term   
   illnesses that tend to accompany the tertiary side effects of   
   syphilis are glaucoma, cataract, epiretinal membrane, and   
   macular edema. So, even if you end up living out a longish   
   life, you still run the risk of partial, if not complete,   
   vision loss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)