Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment – Bad Blood: Guatemala...0 comments

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, otherwise also known as the Tuskegee syphilis study or Public Health Service syphilis, is a medical study that was conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, by the U.S. Public Health Service. Investigators enlisted 399 poor African-American sharecroppers with syphilis to research the natural development of the untreated disease.

Public Health Service in nexus with the Tuskegee Institute embarked on the with almost 400 enrolled black men with syphilis from Macon County, Ala. The pathetic part is that it was never revealed that they had syphilis in the first place, but were informed that they were being treated for "bad blood," a local colloquial term that describe bunch of illnesses that included syphilis, fatigue, and anemia.

The study that stretched for 40 years was controversial on the ethical basis, particularly since the researchers never treated patients aptly even after the 1940s justification of penicillin as a successful cure for the disease. Apart from that, the scientists barred the participants from going in for syphilis treatment programs available to others in the area. The study resulted in victims, that included several men and women, died after they contracted the disease and were never treated effectively.

It didn’t end there. The American scientists deliberately induced syphilis into criminals and patients in a mental medical center in Guatemala nearly 60 years ago. A research has exposed the research that caused U.S. embarrassment to the U.S.

To contain any outrage, the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has apologized, she said,

“We are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health,”

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