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Many people who acquired syphilis were treated and recovered; some died from it. Many famous historical figures, including Charles VIII of France , Christopher Columbus , [ 2 ] Hernán Cortés of Spain, Benito Mussolini , and Ivan the Terrible , [ 2 ] were often alleged to have had syphilis or other sexually transmitted infections.
Deaths from syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. Pages in category "Deaths from syphilis" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
The children died c. 580-250 BC. [23] In the Apple Down cemetery in West Sussex, UK archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of a young man with extensive damage to both his skull and long bones, a combination typical of syphilis. He died in the 6th century. [24]
The unborn baby boy had already died in the womb. ... reminding them to take a sexual history of all patients — since the county saw syphilis in people ages 15 to 72 last year — and to order a ...
South Dakota led the country in syphilis cases per 100,000 people in 2022. California had the highest number of cases overall, followed by Texas and Florida. Southern states made up nine of the ...
But syphilis isn’t just on the rise in Houston: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in April found that, while syphilis cases made up a fraction of sexually ...
During treatment, people may develop fever, headache, and muscle pains, a reaction known as Jarisch–Herxheimer. [4] In 2015, about 45.4 million people had syphilis infections, [5] of which six million were new cases. [9] During 2015, it caused about 107,000 deaths, down from 202,000 in 1990.
Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died.