U.S. researchers scientific injured hundreds of mentally ill people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases from 1946 to 1948 – a practice which came only recently, thanks to light the work of an academic researcher. Has been issued today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a formal apology to the nation of Central America, and the population of Guatemala from the United States.
“Although these incidents occurred more than 64 years ago, and we are outraged that such research could be reprehensible and signed under the guise of public health,” said Clinton and Sebelius in a joint statement. “We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all individuals who have been affected by these abhorrent practices such as research.”
The discovery of a long testing since stems from another, much better known, an episode of tampering with the federal test subjects for the study of diseases transmitted sexually: Since a long time “experience of Tuskegee” to recruit 399 black men poor Macon County, Alabama, who had been diagnosed with syphilis But not informed of their condition. He said federal scientists simply men that they had “bad blood”, and the study researchers collected four decades of monitoring “in the treatment of syphilis Negro Male.” They never deal with the disease course is usually fatal, even after simple treatment of penicillin has been shown to be an effective treatment of syphilis; all participants received free meals and medical examinations, along with federal funding for funeral expenses after their death. The study began in 1932, and continuing right through to 1972, when they were in media reports.
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