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Friday 15 October 2010 |
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Guatemalan
Authorities
OK'd
Illegal
U.S.
Experiments
GUATEMALA
-
Guatemalan
health
authorities
approved
the
illegal
U.S.
experiments
carried
out on
Guatemalans
in the
1940s,
according
to
reports
disclosed
Thursday.
A report
by the
U.S.
Public
Health
Service
refers
to an
alleged
agreement
between
high-ranking
Guatemalan
physicians
and the
former
Pan-American
Health
Office,
a new
disclosure
in the
case.
The
supposed
agreement
gave the
green
light
for
studies
involving
infecting
people
with
venereal
diseases,
designed
by the
team of
U.S.
doctor
John
Cutler,
set as a
condition
for
opening
up a
research
lab in
Guatemala,
according
to the
newspaper
Prensa
Libre.
The
alleged
objective
was to
probe
the
effectiveness
of
medicines
such as
penicillin
to treat
those
diseases,
as part
of a
project
scientifically
and
technically
directed
by the
U.S.
Venereal
Disease
Research
Lab.
Though
some
professionals
supported
the
study on
humans,
the
majority
of the
local
scientific
community
did not
know
about
it, the
daily
noted.
According
to the
report,
Cutler
first
infected
prostitutes
as a way
of
infecting
his
study
subjects,
but the
results
were
poor, so
he began
directly
infecting
his
subjects
without
informing
them or
asking
for
their
consent.
Guatemalan
society
reacted
with
great
indignation
at the
disclosure
of the
story a
couple
of weeks
ago,
when the
government
announced
an
apology
from the
U.S.
administration,
signed
by
Secretary
of State
Hillary
Clinton.
U.S.
President
Barack
Obama
also
conveyed
his
apologies
to
President
Alvaro
Colom in
a phone
call,
but the
Guatemalan
president
called
the
incident
a crime
against
humanity
and
demanded
a
thorough
investigation.
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