83 people died in the US syphilis experiment

The US investigating committee on human medical experiment in 1946-1948 in Guatemala has announced that there are 83 Guatemala people conducted unethical medical experiments, killed.

The Commission's preliminary report, published on August 29, said more than 5,000 Guatemalan people were selected among prisoners, prostitutes, mental patients and orphans to participate in the bacterial injection test. causing syphilis, gonorrhea and some sexually transmitted diseases to explore the effectiveness of Penecillin, then a new antibiotic.

None of them knew about the tests.

Amy Gutmann, head of the Presidential Committee on Research in Biological Problems, called the study decades ago a 'shameful part of medical history'.

Among them, about 1,300 people have been intentionally infected with syphilis, gonorrhea and another sexually transmitted disease - camphor disease. And in that group only about 700 people were treated.

According to the documents studied by the committee, at least 83 people involved in the study died at the end of 1953.

The committee cannot know how many of these deaths are directly or indirectly infected. But Mrs. Gutmann criticized those responsible for the study.

President Obama set up this investigation committee after the incident came to light in early October 2010, a year after Wellesley University discovered the literature describing the experiment by doctors. American community health performed in the 40s of the last century.

Obama has also apologized to Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom, saying that these actions are against American moral values.

Earlier this year, 700 Guatemalan people sued the US Department of Health and Human Services for medical experiments on human bodies, conducted during the period 1946-1948.

The US investigative committee is expected to make its first report next month.

In the final report, in December, the committee will study relevant ethical issues, and to ensure that this will never happen again.