Do not forget that the Military-Industrial Complex also includes Academia…
Nearly 800 plaintiffs have launched a billion-dollar lawsuit against Johns Hopkins University over its alleged role in the deliberate infection of hundreds of vulnerable Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhoea, during a medical experiment programme in the 1940s and 1950s.
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During the experiments the following occurred:
• Prostitutes were infected with venereal disease and then provided for sex to subjects for intentional transmission of the disease;
• Subjects were inoculated by injection of syphilis spirochaetes into the spinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord, under the skin, and on mucous membranes;
• An emulsion containing syphilis or gonorrhoea was spread under the foreskin of the penis in male subjects;
• The penis of male subjects was scraped and scarified and then coated with the emulsion containing syphilis or gonorrhea;
• A woman from the psychiatric hospital was injected with syphilis, developed skin lesions and wasting, and then had gonorrhoeal pus from a male subject injected into both of her eyes and;
• Children were subjected to blood studies to check for the presence of venereal disease.
via Guatemalans deliberately infected with STDs sue Johns Hopkins University for $1bn | US news | The Guardian.