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U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study (Reuters)

Guatemala's Vice president Rafael Espada talks about medical experiments conducted on Guatemalan citizens over 60 years ago during an interview in in Guatemala City, March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair

Reuters - U.S. government researchers must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a presidential commission.




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