Syphilis is a chronic sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum, which is highly contagious and can cause damage to multiple systems and organs in the human body, resulting in tissue destruction, dysfunction, and even life-threatening.
Syphilis is a "Class B" infectious disease among China's notifiable infectious diseases, and it is also one of the five sexually transmitted diseases that China focuses on prevention and monitoring, and people infected with syphilis are more likely to be infected and spread HIV.
The appearance of syphilis may cause a series of complications, such as syphilitic meningitis, seminal vesiculitis or disseminated syphilis, and may even form malignant tumors.
About 60% of syphilis patients may have the characteristics of recurrence, which may be many times in a year, and syphilis can also be transmitted through marital life, contact with the patient's underwear, and use of public objects used by the patient.
If a pregnant woman suffers from syphilis, it will affect eugenics, and there will be intrauterine infection, resulting in neonatal syphilis, and even serious sequelae, such as miscarriage and neonatal death.
After being infected with syphilis, patients will bear a heavy psychological burden, worry about infecting their families, affect family harmony, and are prone to depression over time.