Donald Trump Syphilis Rumors: Doctors Weigh In

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6. from the OP article:

Mabey, a former director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Sexually Transmitted Infections at LSHTM, said while a rash on the palm of a hand can be a giveaway for secondary syphilis, there would usually be more, different-looking lesions.

"They wouldn't look quite like that. They'd be more sort of little raised papules they're so-called, or sometimes you know with the skin peeling off after a day or two," Mabey said.

Dr. Patricia Kissinger, an infectious disease epidemiologist who has spent decades working on STD research and prevention, told Newsweek that there was no way to make a firm determination without examination.

"This could be so many things including trauma, infection, Whitlow's," Kissinger said. "Moreover, secondary syphilis tends to be more on the palms. There are so many things it could be. I still think that it would be difficult to determine by just looking at a photo."