US Government Apologizes For Deliberately Infecting Guatemalan Prison Inmates With Syphilis

Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis. In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated [...] continue reading the breaking news