Incubation of paresis after primary syphilis is quite variable, sometimes as low as 3 years or more than 30 years, but it took 15 years on average.

It was determined that general paresis was a result of contracting syphilis many years earlier.

Friedrich Nietzsche suffered from dementia paralytica -or general paresis- as the results of contracting syphilis (STI), which left untreated (antibiotics) can cause lasting mental damages. The bacterium infects the nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that degenerates into neurosyphilis. The form of neurosyphilis Nietzsche developed typically became general paresis that progressed into dementia, then death.

Paresis is another word for paralysis. It is, however, a slight paralysis. It is usually caused by syphilis and therefore can be treated with antibiotics. Paresis mostly occurs in men between the ages of 35 and 50.

Weakness