Official and wild history of syphilis: how does the flower of syphilis bloom all over the world?

However, syphilis was detected during the physical examination. when it was found that Mr. Zhang was positive for syphilis for the first time, Mr. Zhang said that the hospital diagnosis was wrong. for Mr. Zhang who was positive for syphilis in Zhengzhou people's Hospital, Mr. Zhang is still in the stage where syphilis is just beginning to break out. about whether Mr. Zhang is infected with syphilis, it is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum infection. Syphilis is an ancient disease in America, but it also brings back syphilis, which has been a scourge of Eurasia for hundreds of years. And the health of the crew on the same ship is obviously not right. Some scholars have questioned the origin of syphilis in America. Although the symptoms of syphilis are very similar to those of Native Americans, they do not leave scars caused by syphilis. Maybe syphilis has existed in Europe for a long time. Some people even think that syphilis is yaws in Africa. No country is willing to admit that the disease originated from itself. "

Recently, a man in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, who got the first place in the public examination, was found to have syphilis during a physical examination and was rejected by his unit. The man threatened that the hospital had slandered him and damaged his reputation, and he was furious, saying that he would not go to work in this unit.

The incident sparked a heated public debate. It is understood that the man, surnamed Zhang, won the first place when he applied for the Yellow River Commission. According to the work needs of state organs, civil servants need to undergo a comprehensive medical examination in the recruitment process. But Mr. Zhang, who thought he would get an iron rice bowl, made a mistake during the medical examination.

In the process of physical examination, three physical examinations in the two hospitals showed different results, the first and third were positive for syphilis and the second was negative.

When it was first detected that Mr. Zhang was positive for syphilis, Mr. Zhang said that the hospital diagnosis was wrong, and he went to another hospital for an examination and got a syphilis negative result.

The hospital said it was also very tangled. In order to be on the safe side, the hospital sent experts to examine Mr. Zhang again, but still showed positive syphilis. In response, the Yellow River Commission had to disqualify Mr. Zhang from employment.

On the evening of April 21, the staff of the unit contacted Mr. Zhang and indicated that the leader agreed to let Mr. Zhang re-examine. However, Mr. Zhang said that even if there was no problem with his re-examination, he would not go to work in the unit again.

He believes that it was this unit and hospital that destroyed his innocence and reputation.

The staff of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources said that those hospitals have the right to have medical examinations for civil servants, and there are regulations in the country, and the results of the medical examinations of the designated hospitals must prevail. And this physical examination, the unit commissioned Zhengzhou people's Hospital.

As for Mr. Zhang's detection of syphilis positive in Zhengzhou people's Hospital, the hospital said that Mr. Zhang is still in the initial stage of syphilis, so it is very unstable, so there will be three physical examinations and two positive results. But his symptoms are slowly getting worse, so it is best to take timely treatment.

We will not comment here on whether Mr. Zhang is infected with syphilis.

However, through this incident, we can feel that even though humans have been fighting syphilis for so long, this terrible sexually transmitted disease is still raging in the world. It still affects people's work and life, and even endangers our lives in serious cases.

So, how did syphilis bloom in the world, what impact did its emergence have on people, and how should we prevent this infectious disease and what measures should be taken after the disease?

The origin of syphilis

Syphilis, whose English name is syphilis, is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum. The origin of syphilis has always been controversial. But one of the most reliable theories is that syphilis is an ancient disease in America, which was introduced into Europe during Colombia's voyage back to the Americas.

The 15th century is undoubtedly a great era of navigation. In order to find overseas markets, Colombia was sent by the King of Spain to set sail. On their return voyage, they brought back the news of the discovery of the new world, countless treasures of gold and silver, and syphilis, a disease that had afflicted Eurasia for hundreds of years.

In 1492, during Colombia's voyage to America, a plague was prevalent among Native Americans. The following year, when the Colombian team returned to Europe, there were a large number of indigenous people on board, and the health of the crew was obviously not quite right.

Nearly 1/3 of the crew suffered from skin ulcers, limb weakness and nervous disorders. Even Colombia himself was covered with rashes and blisters when he returned home.

A few years later, the plague began to spread in Spain, and the subsequent war in Naples made it even more uncontrollable throughout Europe.

Of course, some scholars have questioned the origin of syphilis in America. Although the symptoms of syphilis are very similar to those of Native Americans, the Spanish description of the nudity of the six natives at the time showed that the natives suffering from the American plague did not leave scars caused by syphilis.

As a result, some scholars speculate that syphilis may have existed in Europe for a long time, but there is no specific definition and understanding. Some people even think that syphilis is the yaws disease of Africa, which was brought into Spain by the navigator Prince Henry from the Atlantic coast of the African continent in 1442.

The true origin of syphilis is still open to question, but in the past, the name of syphilis in various countries was very interesting.

The French call it "Naples disease", the Germans and Poles call it "French disease", the Russians call it "Polish disease", the Ottoman Turks and Arabs call it "Christian disease", and the Indians call it "Portuguese disease". The Chinese call it "Guangdong sore" and the Japanese call it "Chinese disease".

People throw pots at each other, and no country is willing to admit that the disease originated from itself.

Understanding syphilis and its transmission routes

Many people may be ambiguous about what syphilis is, simply thinking that it is a sexually transmitted disease, similar to AIDS, mainly through sexual transmission.

Such a statement is actually too general. As a sexually transmitted disease, syphilis is much more contagious than AIDS. Even in a few cases, it can be spread through unusual types of kissing, breastfeeding, blood transfusions and contact with contaminated clothing, towels and tableware.

Syphilis can be divided into three types: congenital syphilis, acquired syphilis, and latent syphilis.

Congenital syphilis, as the name implies, is due to parents' reasons, the fetus has been infected with syphilis in the mother's womb. The mother of the fetus is usually a patient of syphilis, and Treponema pallidum is transferred to the fetus through the placenta during pregnancy.

This kind of fetus is generally premature, most newborns have no obvious symptoms of syphilis after birth, and they are prone to fever, weight loss, skin and mucous membrane damage and other symptoms when they are 3-8 weeks or 3 months old. at that time, their physical and mental health was also greatly affected.

Acquired syphilis is also called acquired syphilis.It is infected through other ways other than pregnancy and delivery, such as sexual transmission, blood transmission and so on. According to the timeline, it is divided into three periods.

The classic symptoms of primary syphilis are hard chancre and sclerotic lymphadenitis. Patients with hard chancre generally do not have symptoms of fever or headache. In general, the patient's external genitalia will fester, and other parts of the body may have small erythema and round or oval red nodules.

However, primary syphilis is often innocuous and will disappear naturally after 3 to 4 weeks, which is extremely easy to be ignored.

Due to being ignored, Helicobacter syphilis is accompanied by blood flow to all parts of the body, coupled with the decline of the body's immunity, the symptoms of secondary syphilis break out in the whole body.

After three to five days of fever and headache, patients with secondary syphilis will develop a dark red rash, accompanied by alopecia, visceral bone and nerve abnormalities.

About two years later, patients who are still untreated reach stage III syphilis, which is almost as frightening as advanced cancer.

Its typical symptom is syphilitic gum swelling in the lower leg and other parts, which is also called "syphilitic tumor". At this time, many parts of the body, such as the heart, nerves, stomach and eyes, have been seriously damaged. if there is no urgent treatment at this time, there will be symptoms such as heart failure, chronic meningitis and degeneration of spinal cord function.

It is worth noting that only primary syphilis or early secondary syphilis is contagious. Tertiary syphilis or late-stage latent syphilis is not contagious.

The third type of syphilis is called latent syphilis, also known as recessive syphilis. Patients with a history of syphilis infection do not have any clinical symptoms for many years. When they were tested, except for the positive serological reaction of syphilis, the other manifestations were no different from those of ordinary people. But the latent state of syphilis does not mean that it will not occur, it has been waiting for the opportunity.

Once the patient's resistance begins to decline or re-infected, syphilis will occur again, and in severe cases, it may even induce the patient's late syphilis reaction, which is life-threatening.

Treatment and prevention of syphilis

Since syphilis is so abominable, what we are most concerned about is how to treat and prevent it. Here, people can not help but think of a very interesting topic: since syphilis is so arrogant, why rarely hear about the ancient emperors of Hou Gong Jiali 3000 to get this disease?

In fact, this is closely related to the sexual concept of ancient women. Although the emperor's harem has to recruit many women every year, the women who are qualified to enter the palace are generally well-off and pay special attention to women's etiquette. Those women are very conservative about sex and generally do not have the opportunity to meet other men, so their chastity is still there before entering the palace.

In the palace, the women who come into contact with the opposite sex most should be eunuchs. The concubines are opposite to this group of men who have no sexual function every day, which directly cut off the source of infection.

Therefore, as long as the emperor does not easily go to the green house and other places to find food, generally will not be infected with syphilis.

Du Fu once wrote in the poem "Yan Zhong Cheng has seen in vain" that "Yuan Rong's team went out to the suburbs and asked Liu Xunhua to the wild place", while here the flower willow in the willow originally referred to Youchun, and was later ridiculed as a prostitute. And willow disease is the general name of "venereal disease" in ancient times.

A long time ago, Chinese medical circles included syphilis, gonorrhea, soft chancre and venereal lymphoid granuloma in the category of venereal diseases, and these four major venereal diseases were collectively called willow disease before liberation.

So what ideas have people come up with from the crazy spread of syphilis to gradual control and effective treatment?

Because of the speculation that syphilis came from America, many people think that the antidote must also be in America. So in the 16th century, a "good medicine" called Yuchuangmu became popular in Europe.

Many people began to advocate that this heavy, hard wood will definitely cure syphilis, so they often boil it in water, soak it and drink it. But later, this method came to an end because the effect was too insignificant.

Seeing that Arabs use mercury to treat leprosy, and the symptoms of leprosy and syphilis are very similar, Europeans have a bad idea again.

They injected mercury into their skin to kill Helicobacter syphilis. Some people even thought it wasn't strong enough, so they made a sauna directly on the pot boiling mercury.

Some people have also invented a device: they put people in a big box so that part of their head can be exposed. There is a small box in the big box, mercury in the small box, and a fire under the small box at the same time.

With the continuous volatilization of mercury, the patient's consciousness becomes more and more distracted, and the mouth keeps drooling. But they were still happy and thought it was detoxification.

Of course, in the end, the patient does not necessarily reach the late stage of syphilis, but dies of mercury poisoning.

Because they have been unable to find a suitable treatment, people who have suffered from syphilis have become so crazy that they even think that they can be saved by not burning their bodies with soldering iron or having sex with healthy virgins.

These ideas seem very unscientific to us today, but we can also see how painful people with syphilis are!

In 1906, Eric Hoffman, a German zoologist and dermatologist named Chad Shaudin, finally discovered Treponema pallidum, the culprit of syphilis.

Then, with the continuous rise of modern medicine, in 1941, people found an effective weapon against syphilis-penicillin. Syphilis is no longer incurable!

And how can we prevent this disease? From the examples of the ancient emperors above, we can also see that being clean and cutting off promiscuity is the best measure to prevent syphilis.

In the last century, our country has made great efforts in the fight against syphilis.

In 1505, syphilis was officially introduced into China from Guangdong Province, which is located in the coastal area. Because of its super infectivity, this kind of venereal disease, which is called "Guangdong sore" or "bayberry sore" by Chinese people, soon spread all over the country, causing a large area of infection.

If we want to cut off the source of infection of syphilis, we must start with its route of transmission, and sexual transmission is the most important mode of transmission.

In response, Beijing took the lead in ordering the closure of the city's sound and color places, and carried out a comprehensive physical examination of women in these wind and moon places.

This is a great check. At least 1257 prostitutes have been tested for sexually transmitted diseases, while the rate of syphilis has reached 84.9%. This is only the data of a region in Beijing, if the national situation is counted out, it must be an astonishing data.

It is not easy to think of many women who have been reduced to the place of wind and moon, they just want to make ends meet. Now that they have cut off their means of making a living, they must find another way out.

Therefore, after giving ideological education to these prostitutes, the government organized them to learn other skills to make a living, such as textiles and handicrafts. Later, the corresponding work was arranged for them.

In those days, who would want to be a prostitute with a real job? As a result, the model of Beijing has been imitated all over the country, and local leaders began to arrange for prostitutes to have medical examinations and do ideological work for them in an organized and disciplined manner.

Soon there was a sharp decrease in the number of syphilis patients in China, and even in 1964, Hu Chuanfu, director of the Central Institute of Dermatology and venereal Diseases, announced at a scientific seminar in Beijing that China had basically eliminated syphilis. This miracle shocked the whole world.

However, with the continuous development of modern society, people's concept of sex has undergone a lot of changes. Promiscuous sex before marriage refuses to take safety measures during sexual intercourse, and some people even go to places to have sex with multiple sex workers.

All kinds of unhealthy sexual behaviors not only infected themselves with syphilis, but also implicated innocent partners and fetuses who were still pregnant.

In addition to pregnancy transmission and blood transfusion, contact with patients' contaminated clothing and other ways, the main mode of transmission of syphilis is sexual transmission. Therefore, if you want to prevent syphilis, you must start from taking care of your body and resolutely refuse promiscuity! And safety measures must be taken.

The influence of syphilis on people's work and life

In addition to the physical impact, people infected with syphilis, their work and life will be affected to a certain extent.

It can also be seen from the things of Mr. Zhang at the beginning that national institutions refuse to hire syphilis patients. According to China's "General Standard for physical examination of Civil servants (for trial implementation)," Article 18 stipulates that gonorrhea, syphilis, chancre, venereal lymphoid granuloma, condyloma acuminatum, genital herpes, and AIDS are unqualified.

In other words, when you work hard to pass the civil service examination, once you find the shadow of syphilis in the process of physical examination, you can't be hired in the end.

.Syphilis patients in the treatment stage of syphilis can not be engaged in food, hygiene, early childhood education and other work, otherwise it may affect the health of others.

Nowadays, the treatment of syphilis is also very simple, as long as you are not allergic to penicillin, you can control it by injecting long-acting penicillin once a week. 4 times is a course of treatment.

However, even if you do not have symptoms of syphilis later, your blood marker tppa will be positive for life. This is like a stain that can no longer be washed white. If a woman suffers from syphilis, her child will also be infected in the placenta, causing congenital syphilis.

However, no matter what the cause of syphilis infection, once diagnosed, do not panic, do not collapse. Especially women who are infected by their partners and have not yet conceived should not give up themselves for the sake of the eyes of others.

Patients should actively take treatment measures, do not miss the best time for treatment because of embarrassment and shame.

Syphilis patients must first deal with syphilis before preparing for pregnancy, until the serum titer of syphilis turns negative in the examination, can consider preparing for pregnancy. Otherwise, it will directly lead to the normal development of the fetus, the birth of the baby will have a variety of syphilis symptoms.

The Night Line once told the story of a child who paid for syphilis. In this story, the child's mother found syphilis during a pregnancy test.

The couple then panicked when they heard that their child might also be infected with syphilis and dementia. As a result, the parents secretly threw the child away until death directly after it was born.

In the constant contest between human beings and syphilis, nothing is more innocent than this group of children with congenital syphilis. They do not have the right to choose a healthy and normal body and may even suffer from syphilis after birth.

So here, I would like to warn everyone that they must be clean and not promiscuous. In sexual intercourse, we must do a full range of protective measures. Pay attention to hygiene, wash hands frequently, be careful to make friends! At the same time, once you decide to get pregnant, you must assume the responsibility of being a parent and don't let innocent lives become more unfortunate because of Treponema pallidum.