US medical experiments in Guatemala (map) in the 1940’s were kept a secret until last year, when Prof Susan Reverby at Wellesley College unearthed hidden records. Now health authorities told the BBC that the extent of those experiments could be greater than previously thought. (more…)
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US experiments could have infected 2,500 Guatemalans
Posted in Americas, health, history, Human rights, Justice, news, politics, tagged Guatemala, syphilis, tests, USA on September 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
US sued by Guatemalans over syphilis tests
Posted in Americas, health, history, Human rights, Justice, news, politics, tagged Guatemala, syphilis, tests, USA on March 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The US government is being sued for compensation by hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, psychiatric patients and orphans who were deliberately infected with syphilis (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk) or gonorrhoea in medical tests between 1946 and 1948. (more…)
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