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intaglio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 07:15 AM
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Heard of Tuskegee? Well that style of experiment was widespread
Not only widespread but continues.

From NOT my favourite news source The Daily Mail but needs must where the devil drives.

What about giving hepatitis virus to mental patients?

Or Dr Rhoads infamous experiments upon (sic) "Porto Rican's"?

Having prisoners bitten with malaria carrying mosquitoes?

This is all old news but then we're told about
American-funded doctors in Uganda failed to give the Aids drug AZT to HIV-infected pregnant women, even though it would have protected their newborns.

and
The other study, by Pfizer, gave an antibiotic named Trovan to children with meningitis in Nigeria, although there were doubts about its effectiveness for that disease.

Critics blamed the experiment for the deaths of 11 children and the disabling of scores of others.

Medical researchers need to learn - there are better ways, especially nowadays.
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