for 40 yrs, black men with syphillis were left untreated as a study by the US Public Health, until the story was leaked 30 years ago, 7/25/1972.
"At the start of the study, there was no proven treatment for syphilis. But even after penicillin became a standard cure for the disease in 1947, the medicine was withheld from the men. The Tuskegee scientists wanted to continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. The experiment lasted four decades, until public health workers leaked the story to themedia. "
amazing how horrible humans can be.
"At the start of the study, there was no proven treatment for syphilis. But even after penicillin became a standard cure for the disease in 1947, the medicine was withheld from the men. The Tuskegee scientists wanted to continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. The experiment lasted four decades, until public health workers leaked the story to themedia. "
amazing how horrible humans can be.
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