Johns Hopkins Sued For $1 Billion Over Deliberate STD Infection Scheme
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More than 750 plaintiffs are suing the Johns Hopkins Hospital System Corporation over its role in medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s in which subjects—including orphans, children and mental patients, plaintiffs claim—were deliberately infected with venearal diseases without their consent.
Revelations of these experiments came to light in 2010.
The Guardian reports:
The lawsuit in Baltimore seeks $1bn in damages for individuals, spouses and children of people infected with syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases through a US government program from 1945-56.
The suit claims officials at Johns Hopkins had “substantial influence” over the studies by controlling some panels that advised the federal government on how to spend research dollars. The suit also alleges that Hopkins and the Rockefeller Foundation, which is also named as a defendant, “did not limit their involvement to design, planning, funding and authorization of the Experiments; instead, they exercised control over, supervised, supported, encouraged, participated in and directed the course of the Experiments”.
The suit, which includes 774 plaintiffs, says the experiments were conducted abroad in order to give “researchers the opportunity to test additional methods of infecting humans with venereal disease easily hidden from public scrutiny”.
The U.S. department of health and human services says researchers initially infected Guatemalan sex workers with gonorrhea or syphilis, then permitted them to have sex with soldiers and prison inmates with the goal of spreading the disease.
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—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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