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5. He's proposed that before. Neurosyphilis is almost always a 10, 20, 25 year manifestion of syphilis
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 04:55 PM
Mar 2025

and not a recent one, thus making it unlikely that someone sexually active and wealthy in the 80s and 90s would not have been screened/treated at the more treatable stage. And given his "germophobia," that makes it even less likely he'd not be treated if infected--early on.

Dementia far more likely, including FTD (frontotemporal dementia (Pick's disease.

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