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US apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with syphilis in 1940s study
The US government issued a formal apology for a 1940s study on the efficacy of penicillin in which as many as 695 Guatemalan prisoners, insane asylum inmates, and soldiers were infected with syphilis.
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