The Los Angeles County Department of Health has warned doctors and public health officials to be on the alert for symptoms associated with ocular syphilis -- a sexually-transmitted disease that can cause blindness -- after two potential cases were reported in Los Angeles on Tuesday. So far, 14 confirmed cases of the disease have been reported across the West Coast since December, including eight in San Francisco and six in Washington state, according to local media reports.
According to the Los Angeles Times, most of the cases so far have been reported among gay men, a few of whom are also HIV positive. In Seattle, two patients reportedly went blind as a result of the disease. Ocular syphilis usually develops as a complication of early syphilis and can cause blindness if left untreated.
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Now the Mayor has something to worry about!
ReplyDeleteWho cares. Gods way of saying OK....wanna be married.....I got some things for you!
ReplyDeleteEyes are extensions of nerve tissue.
ReplyDeleteSyphilis attacks nerve tissue in its later stages, including the brain and the optic nerves. This is not a new phenomenon.
The time periods of the strain is not new but rare. Thanks doc. You must have made it clap before!
DeleteYeah...one of the symptoms is rapid eye blinking that will not stop.
ReplyDeleteIt said increase of hair on your knuckles as well.
ReplyDeleteLmao! You looked!