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Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
What Is Syphilis and What Can It Do to the Human Body?
Syphilis is still around today and we'll get to that, but it should be curable by a course of antibiotics. We just don't see quite the devastation that it can do, so talk me through it. What is syphilis and what can it do to the human body? Well, it's a disease that's a spiral key. It's a little spiral shaped bacteria which looks quite nice when you see sort of electron micrographs of it. But yeah, it gets into your body. That's an amazing answer. Oh, right, okay, but we are talking today about something that did a pretty good hatchet job on making human body parts decompose and right away
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