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@graf @CP24 Yes (sometimes).

AIDS and Syphilis both weaken the immune system. The weakening of the immune system allows all sorts of other diseases, such as Hydrocephalus, to creep into the brain and nerve tissue.

Hydrocephalus can make your head bigger but it actually makes the brain smaller because it's caused by a buildup of spinal fluid in the skull which compresses and squishes the brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/world/asia/india-child-...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5066107/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5644263/
@LivingSpaceStudios @graf @CP24 When you have hydrocephalus from birth the first few years are less dangerous as your skull is more elastic. As an adult the pressure can leave you with only a couple hours til you are comatose.

When its a birth defect and they catch it early they place a shunt with an adjustable flow valve into the ventricle of your brain and run a tube under your skin to your abdomen to drain off excess fluid, the valve is to slow the flow in order to have the normal amount of the fluid in your ventricle.

The tube can break and the shunt can malfunction, not super dangerous as a child but fatal as an adult after your skull hardens.

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