Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness caused by the sexually transmitted infection syphilis. Doctors have long known that syphilis can permanently damage a person’s vision and hearing and can even lead to psychiatric changes, but these symptoms are usually associated with infections that have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years.
“They’re not the most specific symptoms, which is why it’s really important that providers are doing appropriate screening and asking patients for risk factors,” and things like their sexual history, Nham said. Syphilis is caused by bacteria called Treponema pallidum. The infection progresses in stages. People catch it when they come into contact with a round, firm and painless sore called a chancre, which typically appears on the genitals, lips or tongue.
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