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Lyme Spirochetes & Syphilis Spirochetes: Some Similarities and Differences
Vectors more commonly pass Lyme infections from tiny poppy-seed sized ticks, while sexual transmission seems to be the main method of contracting syphilis. Both attack the brain. And both can kill a person over time. Lyme is harder to kill. In light of this, the ignorant casual approach of some 1990's physicians that 4 weeks of antibiotics is a cure, is playing pretty loose with peoples' lives.
Syphilis death statistics: for various regions worldwide
- About 89,000 deaths from syphilis in Africa 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
- About 1,000 deaths from syphilis in The Americas 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
- About 43,000 deaths from syphilis in South East Asia 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
- About 21,000 deaths from syphilis in Eastern Mediterranean 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
- bout 1,000 deaths from syphilis in Western Pacific 2002 (The World Health Report, WHO, 2004)
USA Infection Rate
- Incidence (annual) of Syphilis: 70,000 cases (NIAID; CDC 2001)
- Incidence extrapolations for USA for Syphilis: 70,000 per year, 5,833 per month and 1,346 per week
- Worldwide incidence of Syphilis: 12 million worldwide cases
To Your Health and to the Government Officials Who Treat Few Suffering Real Chronic Lyme Patients -- I Hope They Would Be More Open to Chronic Forms,
Dr. J
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