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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow

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Speaker 1: your mind. My name is Robert lamp and Julie Douglas,

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Speaker 1: and I'd like you to take a moment to just

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Speaker 1: try and create. Try and imagine the most destructive disease possible.

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Speaker 1: Imagine a disease that ravages the body. That ravage is

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Speaker 1: just about every tissue, every every part of the human

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Speaker 1: form that it takes down. The sex organs that that

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Speaker 1: takes apart the face, takes apart your identity, and in

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Speaker 1: some cases ultimately robbed you of your mind as well

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Speaker 1: before killing you outright. Yeah, you mentioned sex organs. So

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Speaker 1: also imagine that there's a moral to mention to this

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Speaker 1: disease that would give you the sort of outward appearance

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Speaker 1: that perhaps you had been engaging in conduct unbecoming to you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And of course, in all of this, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: a very real ill this and that is syphilis. We're

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Speaker 1: actually going to devote two whole episodes to syphilis here.

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Speaker 1: This first episode, Syphilis the Great Imitator, is mainly going

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Speaker 1: to focus on the organism that causes syphilis and how

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Speaker 1: syphilis manifests itself in the human body. In the second episode,

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Speaker 1: we are going to get into the cultural and historical

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Speaker 1: impact of syphilis, because that that in its own right

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Speaker 1: is an enormous topic of interest, because for four and

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Speaker 1: a half centuries, syphilis ravages the Old World, ravages Western culture,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's really kind of difficult to overstate the

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Speaker 1: the role that syphilis played in coloring Western civilization during

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Speaker 1: that time. Yes, don't run away, because this is alf

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Speaker 1: really interesting that the bacterium itself is fascinating, and then

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Speaker 1: of course the cultural implications. Now we have our first

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Speaker 1: recorded epidemic of venereal syphilis occurring in Europe, and by

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Speaker 1: the close of the fifteenth century you have chaos just

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Speaker 1: raining in Naples, Italy, where there's a huge outbreak. In fact, uh,

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Speaker 1: Pope Innocent the eighth asked French King Charles the Eighth

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Speaker 1: to invade the city with troops to try to keep

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Speaker 1: it under control. But what do you think happens? Well,

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Speaker 1: as we would as we it would eventually learned, Sending

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Speaker 1: troops then to deal with syphilis not the best strategy

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Speaker 1: because because that they're going to end up catching the syphilis.

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Speaker 1: And then when you draw the troops out, they're going

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Speaker 1: to take the syphilis elsewhere exactly. And the problem here

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Speaker 1: is that syphlis has being known as the great imitator

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Speaker 1: because it has all these different symptoms that at the

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Speaker 1: outset might be mistaken for other illnesses. So imagine this

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Speaker 1: time period in which this was happening and people not

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Speaker 1: Sir William Afler, he says, no syphilis in all its

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Speaker 1: manifestations and relations and all other things clinical will be

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Speaker 1: added to you. There is no organ in the body,

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Speaker 1: nor any tissue in the organs, which syphilis does not invade.

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Speaker 1: And it is therefore manifestly difficult to speak, at least

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Speaker 1: at all concisely of the pathology of the disease, just

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Speaker 1: as as it is almost impossible to describe its clinical

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Speaker 1: symptoms without mentioning almost every symptom of every known disease.

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Speaker 1: And these symptoms are not going to be the same

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Speaker 1: from one person to the next. So you have a

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Speaker 1: disease that is that is seemingly very stealthy, very nefarious.

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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's it's changing its shape, it's changing its strategy,

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Speaker 1: it's going dormant it's popping back up and uh and

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Speaker 1: the whole time everyone's trying to understand what's going on,

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Speaker 1: how to prevent it. Uh. Again, there there's there's this

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Speaker 1: social level in society. Uh. It's it's a disease that

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Speaker 1: ravages the poor, it ravages the rich. It's hitting the royalty,

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Speaker 1: it's hitting the clergy, it's hitting anyone who's engaging in

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Speaker 1: sexual contact, which is everyone, right, And in fact, it

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Speaker 1: is so prevalent that you get a couple of references

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Speaker 1: a pox on you. It's but the problem with this is

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Speaker 1: antiquated illness, right, it is not. In fact, The Centers

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Speaker 1: for Disease Control estimate that annually more than fifty five

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Speaker 1: people in the US get new syphilis infections, and during

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve there were more than forty nine

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Speaker 1: thousand reported new cases of syphilis, compared to forty thousand

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Speaker 1: once against syphilis, even though it is a tremendous interest

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Speaker 1: from a historical standpoint, it is not a purely historical disease.

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Speaker 1: Now we just don't put as much emphasis on it

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Speaker 1: And and that has been a huge advantage in the

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Speaker 1: war against cephalis for sure, But still it is it

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Speaker 1: advent of what would seem a magic bullet. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this dastardly organism also known as Treponema palladum. Yes,

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Speaker 1: such Treponema palladum, which is a treponemal disease. There are

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Speaker 1: other treponemal diseases which will get into these and co

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Speaker 1: include a visual penta and yaws. None of these, of

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Speaker 1: course are sexually transmitted, but they are essentially skin ailments

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Speaker 1: that are that are transferred by skin to skin contact. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so they are related to Treponema palladum, but they themselves,

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Speaker 1: as you say, are not spread through sexual contact. And

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Speaker 1: I should add to to be clear if you want

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Speaker 1: to get really particular. Syphilis is caused by a subspecies

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Speaker 1: of Treponema palladum, essentially Treponema paladum palatum. But for all

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Speaker 1: intents and references going forward, Treponema palladum ke palatum syphilis.

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Speaker 1: You'll know what we're talking about. Yeah, Now, this is

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Speaker 1: a spial shaped bacterium also known as a sparrow keet

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Speaker 1: and that we're talking about slender, spirally undulating bacteria here

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Speaker 1: and again. It is most often spread by sexual contact,

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Speaker 1: and the disease occurs in three primary stages. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to sort of encourage you to think

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Speaker 1: throughout this with an invasion. Sorry, all right, well, let's

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Speaker 1: let's talk about how syphilis is transmitted. And I'd like

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Speaker 1: because that's what it is. And we're dealing with an

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Speaker 1: invasion of these spiral keets into the human body. And

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Speaker 1: But the main ways that it's that it's spreading us

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Speaker 1: as an entry point. Now, the way that the spiro

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Speaker 1: when when the spire key enters the body, enters through

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Speaker 1: makes itself known in the form of a syphilitic sore,

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Speaker 1: also known as a shanker. And shankers occur mainly on

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Speaker 1: So this is when you see most of the transmission

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Speaker 1: And these shankers can appear usually around twenty one days

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Speaker 1: by any number of other ailments. Again, it's a great

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Speaker 1: is the human body, right, And you are highly contagious

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Speaker 1: at this point. In fact, gentle, those sours caused by

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Speaker 1: syphilis make it a lot easier to transmit and acquire

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Speaker 1: things like HIV infection. Right, so you can get a

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Speaker 1: secondary infection at this point. In fact, there is an

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Speaker 1: estimated two to fivefold increased risk of acquiring HIV if

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Speaker 1: you're exposed to infection when syphilis is present in these

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