A Wellesley College historian discovered the U.S. government-funded experiment that ran from 1946 to 1948. Apparently, it aimed to test whether penicillin, then relatively new, could prevent infection with sexually transmitted diseases. The study came up with no useful information and was hidden for decades.
Dr. John Cutler, a government researcher which led the Guatemala project, also was involved in the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which from 1932 to 1972 scientists tracked 600 black men in Alabama, who unknowingly had syphilis and the scientists did not offer them treatment.
"We are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said of the Guatemalan project.
The white house spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama plans to call Guatemalan president Alvaro Colon.
Strict regulations today make clear that it is unethical to experiment on people without their consent. However, such regulations didn't exist in the 1940s. Forty similar deliberate-infection studies were conducted in the United States during that period, Collins said.
With Guatemala's permission, 696 men and women were exposed to syphilis or gonorrhea from prostitutes or deliberate inoculation, Wellesley College medical historian Susan Reverby reported. It's not clear. How many were infected or treated with penicillin successfully?
Every uncovered Cutler's records while researching the Tuskegee experiment for a book.
U.S. government ordered two independent investigations.
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