Synopsis:
5. medicine & health: 1. diseases: Diseases: Infectious diseases: Syphilis:
Nature 01967.txt
Patient protection US President Barack Obama has asked his bioethics commission to review the recent discovery that US government-funded scientists intentionally infected subjects with syphilis in a study in Guatemala in the 1940s (see Nature 467,645;
Nature 02225.txt
The commission met in part to discuss last year's revelations that US government researchers secretly gave syphilis to hundreds of Guatemalan prison inmates in the 1940s (see Nature 467,645;
All had been disclosed publicly, unlike the syphilis experiments, but did not draw the condemnation at the time that they would today.
ScienceDaily_2014 03067.txt
The first tetracyclines discovered in the late 1940s ushered in a new class of powerful antibacterial agents to treat high-mortality diseases among them anthrax and plague as well as such bacterial infections as chlamydia syphilis and Lyme disease.
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