1 October 2010 Last updated at 22:13 ET Help The president of Guatemala has said the US committed a serious crime when it deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis.
Speaking through a translator, Alvaro Colom told the BBC that he and his country were ''very angry''.
US President Barack Obama has apologised for the medical tests, in which mentally ill patients and prisoners were infected without their consent.
October 1, 2010 Robert Siegel talks with Susan Reverby, professor of women's studies at Wellesley College, about her discovery of a medical experiment conducted by U.S. government scientists in Guatemala in the 1940s. Reverby found that public health officials infected close to 700 Guatemalans with syphilis to see whether the disease could be prevented by penicillin. Reverby came across evidence of the experiment while researching the Tuskegee study.
Friday, October 1, 2010
How inhumane
Posted by Greta Jo at 10:54 PM
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so what do they expect to be done now? Alot of awful stuff was done back then to the indians, the germans, etc etc etc, its crap but there was alot of it and I cannot understand how another human beign could do such a thing, but then again we has scientist in labs doing tests on animals and I cannot understand how they can sleep at night either and thatas happening right now. Just awful all of it.
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