There was a recent revelation made. The U.S. government participated in human tests on unwilling Guatemalans. The United States government has issued an apology for the tests conducted, which infected Guatemalans with syphilis. The Tuskegee tests, conducted on hundreds of poor African Americans, are eerily comparable as both programs studied the effects of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease. There were 40 years of experiments and studies within the Tuskegee experiments. Both experiments share one John C. Cutler, who supervised the two year trial in Guatemala, and a number of years of study at Tuskegee.
Authorized to do Guatemalan test
Now it seems sexually transmitted diseases are treated diverse. This is in comparison to the early 20th century. Someone infected can take a couple of hours and get a prescription. Penicillin wasn’t authorized to be used in 1946 yet, reports MSNBC. This is why the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institute of Health, the Pan American Health Sanitary Institute and also the Guatemalan government authorized a study on syphilis affects. The study was led by Dr. John Cutler. Male prisoners and female prisoners were amongst the 696 test subjects. Some were encouraged to catch the disease the typical way, and others were injected with the disease. There weren’t even a 3rd of the subjects treated for the disease. In 1948, the study stopped.
Tuskegee syphilis with its tests
The Tuskegee Experiments are a dark chapter in American history. Between 1932 and 1972, African Americans were watched with the disease. They were then observed to view what would happen. 399 of the subjects were from Alabama. They were also all male. The study was carried out by the U.S. Public Health Service. A difference could be seen. We just have to look at it. The Guatemalan STD patients were given syphilis when the Tuskegee patients already had the disease. Treatments weren’t given to two thirds of the Guatemalan patients. This is one more difference. The Tuskegee patients didn’t get penicillin as treatment. 1947 was when penicillin started getting used. It was not before then. 1972 was when the experiment ended.
Apology should be made
It is impossible to say the human experimentation can just be excused. President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sebelius all personally apologized to the Guatemalan people, according to Cable News Network. That is something like a start.
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MSNBC
msnbc.msn.com/id/39456324/ns/health-sexual_health
CNN
cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/01/us.guatemala.apology/index.html?hpt=T1
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
