Judge: Lawsuit Over Guatemala Syphilis Experiment to Proceed
Source: Agence France-Presse
“.....the study conducted by the United States more than 60 years ago in Guatemala in which researchers infected hundreds of people with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.”
January 05, 2019 4:16 AM
AFP
WASHINGTON —
A U.S. federal judge in Maryland has ruled that pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation must face a $1 billion lawsuit over their roles in a 1940s medical experiment that saw hundreds of Guatemalans infected with syphilis.
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