U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala

Friday, October 1, 2010 - 17:49 in Health & Medicine

Medical researchers deliberately infected prison inmates for a study in the 1940s.The United States apologized Friday for an experiment in the 1940s in which government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.

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