Syphilis, hepatitis, crabs..?

are syphilis, hepatitis, crabs, trichomoniasis or NGU Nongonoccocal urethritis chronic/ lethal?

serious answers only please if you know!

thanks!

Syphillis is fatal, if it actually gets that far. It will eventually attack brain tissue, it can also attack the heart- and damage to those will do the job. Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, and the damage can cause enough of the liver to fail to work. Liver failure is fatal as well. Crabs, trich and NGU are not fatal, but you might wish they were. I don't think I've ever seen anyone who could stand having crabs long enough to really get that bad off. The itching and scratching would make you more likely to get a nasty skin infection though, and I suppose if you managed to get an MRSA infection, that can be fatal. It still wouldn't be caused by the crabs though. Trich would more likely lead to PID, while very painful, still not fatal. You would more likely be sterile. NGU is much the same way. Chronic infections would eventually likely cause prostate problems, and I suppose a chronic prostate problem would eventually lead you to develop cancer of the prostate. As a rule even that's not fatal. Most prostate cancer is very slow growing, enough so that men with it usually die of old age or something else entirely. However, the last three items cause enough discomfort and misery that you aren't likely to just suffer in silence, without seeking some kind of treatment to get relief. So I think the chance of them actually morphing into anything fatal would be really rare. Syphillis was fatal for a long time because they lacked adequate treatments, and it has a latent stage where you feel just fine and don't even realize you have it still. The initial sore will heal, and you will think it's all gone- while inside it's doing the damage. Hepatitis usually causes symptoms once it hits the point liver function is impaired- until then it's pretty quiet. Once it does announce itself though, you again have symptoms that will bring you to see the doctor for treatment. Unfortunately, not all damage can be repaired. If your liver fails, your choices are transplant or death. But nobody dies of crabs or trich. And nobody dies of the embarassment of having any of those things diagnosed and treated either- so I don't know why any of them should reach a point where fatality was an issue. Not in this day and age, anyway.

syphilis can be lethal if left untreated, but i dont know about the others. im inclined to say that crabs is not lethal, and that hepatitis is, but I'm unsure on the last two.