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Okay, so in order to basically prevent the spread of syphilis, one way to do this is to increase or is to really treat people.
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So treatment, let's do it this way, treatment of syphilis can lead to the prevention, to preventing the spread of syphilis.
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So how does this work? let's say this person in the center has syphilis.
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We can prevent the spread to nearby people, we can prevent the spread, we can prevent the spread by treating the syphilis within this first patient.
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So that's one way treatment can help.
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So what is the treatment to really treat syphilis? well, penicillin is an antibiotic, the first antibiotic ever discovered, and this was such a big deal because people found that penicillin works as a treatment.
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Penicillin kills trypanemum pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis.
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So this was fantastic as a treatment, right? and that can prevent spread, but something else can prevent spread as well, vaccines, right? vaccines can also prevent the spread of syphilis.
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Basically, if this person has syphilis, but most, if all the people have a vaccine against syphilis, then even if they infect or attempt to, if the syphilis gets into the body of this person, it won't establish infection because of the fact that these people have a vaccine, right? but here's the problem.
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As of 2017, there is no vaccine...