US gives Guatemala syphilis!
 

Fucking wonderful. Looks like the US is nearly as bad as the fucking Nazis!

US apologizes for 1940s STD study in Guatemala

WASHINGTON ? The U.S. government apologized to Guatemala Friday for a study 60 years ago in which American scientists deliberately infected prisoners in that country with syphilis.

The 1946 experiment was unearthed by a Wellesley College medical historian. It apparently was conducted to test the effectiveness of penicillin, which was relatively new then, in treating sexually transmitted diseases.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said they were, in their words, "outraged that such reprehensible research could could have occurred under the guise of public health."

Strict regulations today would prohibit such medical research. U.S. officials are beginning two investigations to uncover exactly what happened and make sure today's rules are adequate.

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God Damn America.

Yeah I said it.

There is a long history of testing experimental drugs on poor people in underdeveloped countries. They do this in Eastern Europe now with dangerous cancer drugs. Other places too I am sure. Not that this is the same as deliberately infecting people, but I would not surprised if that goes on too in places...

Actually they did this same experiment to poor black men in Alabama around the same time.

At least they did it with prisoners...and hookers.

Right?

Not quite true... They didn't infect them... But they didn't treat them or tell them what they had and instead just watched them die from the disease while studying the results.

Progressives have a long history of this.

I would assume your average 1940's Guatemalan hooker probably already had syphylis.

apparently in africa the HIV rates were 'inflated' to assist in 'medical donations'

funny the coincidental correlation