Dr. Susan Riverby, of the Willisley College in the United States, when she was formally commissioned with 14 other scientists to investigate the famous Tuskegee case, never thought she would find some official documents proving that the State Public Health Administration Hundreds of black Americans and hundreds of poor Guatemalans have claimed the lives of many of them. The doctors who took part in the program have deprived hundreds of patients of treatment to study the progress and spread of the bacteria that cause syphilis, and that for years they have left the disease to kill these bodies Poor victims whom they considered to be test mice.
The disclosure prompted the US government - President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health Minister Sibelis - to submit an official apology to Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom on October 6, 2010. President Coulomb accepted the US apology but described what happened as a crime against humanity.
The first story began in 1972, when the media revealed what was then known as the Tuskegee Study, conducted by the United States Public Health Service between 1932 and 1972 on 400 patients with syphilis, all of them poor black Americans From Tuskegee County, Alabama.
At the time of the start of the study there was no known cure for deadly syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the pteridum of Treponema pallidum.
The path of syphilis transmission is mostly sexually transmitted, and there are very few cases of congenital syphilis transmitted from mother to fetus within the uterus. In 1932 there was no successful treatment of syphilis, and the disease damaged the heart, aorta, brain, eyes, and bones. In some cases these effects are fatal.
Between 1972 and 1972, the Department of Public Health conducted a confidential study of 400 black Americans, all illiterate poor, all of whom had syphilis. The study was clinical and was conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama. Where doctors have denied these patients any effective treatment, so that researchers can observe the normal development of this disease when left without treatment.
Even after confirming the efficacy of penicillin for the treatment of syphilis in 1940, researchers deliberately left these patients untreated, killing many of them. The controversy over the immoral behavior of researchers who conducted this study eventually led to major changes in how patients were protected in clinical studies and federal laws were passed.
But under President Clinton and in 1997, a team of scientists and historians was commissioned to re-investigate the Tuskegee study and draw conclusions and recommendations. Dr. Susan Riverby of Wellesley College was part of this team.
The investigation team easily found the study horrifying, but they did not realize that the investigation would soon take them south of the United States to Guatemala - another secret study by the Department of Public Health and before the Tuskegee study was exposed to the hype associated with it. To another country that chose hundreds of poor citizens and prisoners not to notice the development of the disease without treatment, but this time these poor people are healthy, the study injected syphilis and subjected them to study!
Dr. Susan Riverby and the research team were first assured that Tuskegee's experience was immoral. And four hundred black Americans have never been told that they have syphilis. They have been told that they have blood problems and promised to get free medical examinations, free meals and insurance for each of them to bear the costs of burial after they die! The investigation proved that experience was an act against humanity, by all standards. But some documents signed by Dr. Susan Riverby led her across the border to Guatemala where she found out that a terrible study took place there between [1946-1948].
Dr. Rivervi found that the supervisor of the secret Guatemala program was Dr. John Cutler Jim, who works in the Department of Public Health Services. After completing his studies in Guatemala in 1948, he returned to work in the Tuskegee study. The same man continued to defend the study until the early 1990s. That the secrets of the media revealed .. A shadow defending the experience of Tuskegee No one knew that the same doctor had conducted another secret study more severe and barbaric
