The origins of Enoch !

[Chimp]

It was also in my family, my maternal great grandfather had it. He caught it before he married my great grandmother. There was no real cure for it before antibiotics came along, but the symptoms abated in him, it went dormant. One of the effects in future generations are aneurysms. His son, my grandfather, developed a heart valve problem, he was taken in for an operation to replace the valve but couldn't do the operation due to an aortic aneurysm. He died a few weeks later. In 1996 my mother developed an aortic aneurysm in the part where the aorta splits to feed both legs, she was successfully operated on. Us kids were told to get scanned at 50 to see if we had developed any, I think I was the only one to get scanned, but they only scanned my torso as as the doctor said if there's one in your head you may as well kiss it goodbye. My other siblings don't want to know.

There was a huge outburst in the 1970's in america when it was found out that antibiotics were withheld from a black community to see what effects it would have on future generations, it was called The Tuskegee Study

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm.

 

[annabel]

My ggg grandmother died of general paresis in a lunatic asylum. She had 3 known partners, syphilis status of the first two unknown. What I have never understood is how her last husband, who died a long time later of old age, and her children from all 3 partners did not get any ill effects. She was married to him for 28 years, so even allowing for it to become dormant in her for a while, it has made me suspect something was afoot in their marriage