Syphilis Experiments Shock, But So Do Third World Drug Trials

August 31, 2011

A commission set up last year by President Barack Obama has revealed that 83 Guatemalans died in U.S. government research that infected hundreds of prisoners, prostitutes and mental patients with the syphilis bacteria to study the drug penicillin — a project that the group called “a shameful piece of medical history.” (ABC News)