United States Apologizes for Conducting STD Study in Guatemala (associatedcontent)

associatedcontent - In the 1940s, as Guatemalan soldiers, mentally ill patients and prisoners were detained, American researchers infected the victims with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) for scientific purposes. The human experiment was recently discovered, and the researchers infected 696 Guatemalan men and women from 1946 to 1948 in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin against STDs.

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