The American pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation to answer because of human experiments in Guatemala in the ’40s and’ 50s. The American Federal judge Theodore Chuang decided by he dismissed the claim of the defense on the setting of the procedure.
In the Central American country, hundreds of people were at that time on purpose with the venereal disease Syphilis have been infected. The goal of these people was trying to figure out whether Penicillin is effective against sexually transmitted diseases.
In the year of 2015 had submitted 774 victims and victims relatives lawsuit. Assure you, the Tests were made without your Knowledge or consent. According to judge Chuang, the plaintiffs are asking for a billion dollars in compensation.
have been detected in The human trials were 2010, Professor Susan Reverby of Wellesley College in the United States. She was met with a notes by John Charles Cutler, 2003 deceased specialists for venereal diseases. Cutler had conducted the series of experiments. He and his colleagues in the research took the Tests in Guatemala, soldiers, the mentally ill, prostitutes and convicted criminals.
The former American President, Barack Obama had apologized in 2010 for the experiments. His then Secretary of state Hillary Clinton described the Experiments as “unethical” and “reprehensible”.
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