Syphilis is transmitted through sexual or other intimate contact with an infected person, or from mother to unborn child. A person who has sex with another person who has active syphilis lesions has about a 30 percent chance of becoming infected. The chancres or sores of primary syphilis and the rashes and skin lesions of secondary syphilis are very infectious, so people with syphilis are most infectious during the primary and secondary stages of the infection, although the disease can be transmitted during certain later stages as well. The blood, semen, and vaginal secretions of an infected person may also be infectious.
Not only oral, anal, or genital sexual contact but even touching infected areas can result in transmission. People can transmit syphilis even if they are not symptomatic. Common routes through which the bacterium may enter the person being infected include breaks in the skin (which may be so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye) or contact with mucous membranes.
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