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syphilis

if a person hasn't had a syphilis sore could you still have syphilis and if you can how would it get past on.
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how rare is it to catch syphilis through protected sex i have never had a sore but might have other symptoms like hair loss and swollen lymph nodes after 7 months of having protected sex. i have had a full test after 10 days and was clear and i did buy some home kits later on which wear clear but dont no how accurate they are.
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Hello.

You can still have syphilis without showing obvious symptoms one of which is the syphilis lesion/sore.  Syphilis infection can get passed on by skin-skin, mainly gential gential contact, the bacteria could be shedding from a less obvious lesion or one not visible (i.e., internal lesion) during sex.  The bacteria also incubates on mucus membranes or sex fluids.  


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