>>17141133the army also had a problem with stds
i dont know if they were referring to preexisting stds from before enlistment or infections that happened during deployment but basically it was a big problem for them
in 1944 they went to an american prison and asked the prisoners if they wanted to be part of a study on stds, they didnt lie to the prisoners or anything, they did disclose the whole procedure and also gave each participant $100 and a letter of recommendation to the parole board, of course there are debates about whether it's ethical to even allow people to consent to things like this but anyway the study was inconclusive
so in 1946 the army decided to try again except this time they decided to run the study in guatemala probably because guatemala was poor as fuck and they wouldnt be hampered by us laws and regulations so they could conduct more extensive research
they deliberately infected guatemalans with stds but this time they didnt disclose it, for example they would infect prostitutes and then pay them to have sex with local prisoners and (guatemalan) soldiers, i dont know how the prostitutes were infected exactly, its possible they were misinformed or uninformed about the deliberate infections or covertly infected during meetings with the researchers but regardless the prisoners and soldiers were definitely unaware, thats just one example of the infection method, of course it also spread naturally too, its been estimated at least 1200 guatemalans were infected from these experiments and some estimates reach 5000, some people received real medicine and some received placebo because obviously you need a control group
so how did this get uncovered?
well in 2005 some professor was researching tuskegee and found documents on these guatemalan experiments and then returned them to the us government, i think she talked about it with her local news outlets but also obama talked about it too
in conclusion governments dont have any secrets like this anymore
