Tuesday, August 30, 2011

BBC News - Guatemalans 'died' in 1940s US syphilis study

BBC News - Guatemalans 'died' in 1940s US syphilis study:

'via Blog this'

At least 83 Guatemalans are thought to have died not long after being deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhoea in the 1940s, a presidential commission in Washington has heard.

US government scientists infected hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, psychiatric patients and sex workers to study the effects of penicillin.

None of those infected consented.

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