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Obama apologizes to Guatemala for US sex-disease study
President Barack Obama personally apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-transmitted diseases. In a phone conversation with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Obama expressed his deep regret for the experiment conducted by US Public Health researchers in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948, and apologized "to all those affected." The US president also vowed...

Obama apologizes to Guatemala for US human experiments
President Barack Obama personally apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-transmitted diseases. In a phone conversation with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Obama expressed his deep regret for the experiment conducted by US Public Health researchers in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948, and apologized "to all those affected." The US president also vowed...

Obama to apologize to Guatemala president about experiment
President Barack Obama plans to call Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to personally apologize over a disclosure that American scientists deliberately infected Guatemalan Prisoners with syphilis decades ago. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday that the news was "shocking, it's tragic, it's reprehensible." Obama's spokesman said: "The United States by all means apologizes to all of those that were impacted." He said the president had been briefed and intended to speak...

U.S. Apologizes for Guatemala Syphilis Experiment
Washington - The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government medical researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan Prison inmates with syphilis. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other Top Officials issued a statement about the experiment, which echoed the infamous 1960s Tuskegee study in which black American men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis. "The Sexually...

U.S. apologizes for 'abhorrent' syphilis study in Guatemala
Mexico City — Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday that government scientists had infected some 1,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments from 1946 to 1948 in "appalling violations" of Medical ethics. U.S. scientists infected Prostitutes with syphilis or gonorrhea and sent them to have unprotected sex with Soldiers or Prison inmates, later testing them for possible cures, U.S. officials said. When few became infected, scientists...

Words Inadequate to Describe U.S. Bio-Crime In Guatemala: Siglo Vientiuno, Guatemala
It was revealed on Friday that United States scientists traveled to Guatemala in the 1940s and injected ‘Prostitutes, Soldiers, Prisoners and the mentally ill’, without their consent, with syphilis and gonorrhea. Not surprisingly, the people of that nation are outraged and U.S. officials at the very highest levels are expressing apologies. This morning’s editorial in Guatemala’s Siglo Vientiuno struggles to describe the enormity of what Guatemala President Alvaro...

US sorry for secret syphilis experiment
Washington: President Barack Obama has apologised for a US government experiment conducted in the 1940s in which Prisoners in Guatemala were deliberately infected with a Sexually transmitted Disease. Mr Obama delivered the Apology in a telephone call to Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom. "This is tragic and the US by all means apologises to all those who were impacted by this," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. The US Public Health Service conducted the testing from 1946 to 1948...

U.S. Syphilis Experiments In Guatemala Mental Hospital In 1940s Revealed, U.S. Apologies To Nation
Washington — American scientists deliberately infected Prisoners and patients in a mental Hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible Research." The discovery dredges up past wrongs in the name of science – like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in this country that has long dampened minority participation in Medical Research – and could...

U.S. Issues Formal Apology for Guatemala STD Experiments
The United States government issued a formal Apology Friday for STD tests conducted on Prisoners, Mental Health patients, and service workers in Guatemala in the 1940s. Susan Reverby, a Wellesley College researcher, discovered the information regarding the Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study. She found that the patients were infected with gonorrhea and syphilis without their permission, some by direct inoculation and others by sleeping with infected Prostitutes. Secretary of State...

US Issues Apology to Guatemala for STD Experiments
US government scientists knowingly infected hundreds of people in Guatemala with STDs, specifically gonorrhea and syphilis, without their knowledge. This happened more than 60 years ago, and the effects on the people went almost entirely undocumented. Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton issued a statement apologizing for their actions Friday. This experiment was used as a study to learn more about the ways these STDs worked, and many who took part...

Wellesley professor unearths a horror: Syphilis experiments in Guatemala
Picking through musty files in a Pennsylvania archive, a Wellesley College Professor made a heart-stopping discovery: US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects’ permission. Medical historian Susan M. Reverby happened upon the documents four or five years ago while researching the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study and later shared her findings with US government officials. The...

U.S. apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with STDs " 1940s
Let’s be the “Ugly American”…Obama and his palshad to dig really, really deep todayfor astory to fithisview of America as thedespised, neo-colonial power. It took a lotto find this gem. Let’s try toget all of South Americastirred up. Keep in mind this was during the period of the “Progressives”… this was not a conservative doing if true. More Propaganda material for those who hate. I mean, is there nothing this man and his czars...

U.S. Government Scientist Gave Syphilis to Guatemalans on Purpose
In today's Totally Fucked-Up Shit Your Country Did news, the U.S. government says it is sowwies for giving syphilis to nearly 700 Guatemalan women, Prison inmates and mentally ill patients in the 1940s… On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala...

Words Inadequate to Describe U.S. Bio-Crime In Guatemala: Siglo Vientiuno, Guatemala
BBC NEWS VIDEO: Guatemala calls U.S. medical tests 'a crime against humanity', Oct. 2, 00:02:31 There seems to be no proper

Obama apologises for Guatemala syphilis experiment
President Barack Obama personally apologised on Friday to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-transmitted diseases. In a phone conversation with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Obama expressed his deep regret for the experiment conducted by US Public Health researchers in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948, and apologised "to all those affected". The US president...

US Apologizes for Giving Guatemalans Syphilis in 1940s Experiment
Friday, October 01, 2010 By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Washington (AP) - American scientists deliberately infected Prisoners and patients in a mental Hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible Research." The U.S. government-funded experiment, which ran from 1946 to 1948, was discovered by a Wellesley College Medical historian. It apparently was...

US apologizes for '40s syphilis study in Guatemala
WASHINGTON – American scientists deliberately infected Prisoners and patients in a mental Hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible Research." The discovery dredges up past wrongs in the name of science — like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in this country that has long dampened minority participation in Medical Research — and could...

US apologizes for 1940s STD study in Guatemala
Washington — American scientists deliberately infected Prisoners and patients in a mental Hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible Research." The discovery dredges up past wrongs in the name of science - like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in this country that has long dampened minority participation in Medical Research - and could complicate...

Obama to apologize to Guatemala head on experiment
Washington — President Barack Obama plans to call Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to personally apologize over a disclosure that American scientists deliberately infected Guatemalan Prisoners with syphilis decades ago. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday that the news was "shocking, it's tragic, it's reprehensible." Obama's spokesman said: "The United States by all means apologizes to all of those that were impacted." He said the president had been briefed...

U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other Top Officials issued a statement about the experiment, which echoed the infamous 1960s Tuskegee study in which black American men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical," the statement reads. "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such...

U.S. apologizes for STD experiments in Guatemala
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical," according to the joint statement from Clinton and Sebelius. "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are...

U.S. apologizes for newly revealed syphilis experiments done in Guatemala
Friday, October 1, 2010; 1:57 PM The United States issued an unusual Apology Friday to Guatemala for conducting experiments in the 1940s in which doctors infected Soldiers, Prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. This Story The experiments, conducted by a physician who was later involved in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in Alabama, involved a total of 696 men and women who were drafted into studies aimed at determining the effectiveness of...

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Obama to apologize to Guatemala head on experiment
Washington — President Barack Obama plans to call Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to personally apologize over a disclosure that American scientists deliberately infected Guatemalan Prisoners with syphilis decades ago. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday that the news was "shocking, it's tragic, it's reprehensible." Obama's spokesman said: "The United States by all means apologizes to all of those that were impacted." He said the president had been briefed...

U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical," according to the joint statement from Clinton and Sebelius. "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are...