The Secret Story of How a Revered Future Surgeon General Inspired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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1. I don't know of any evidence the men were infected with syphilis by the

U S Public Health Service or Tuskegee. They were deliberately not told of their disease and not treated, even after penicillin was discovered.

The disease was left to run its course in these men, even though treatments were available when the study began, and better treatment became available during the course of the study.

The first sentence in this article seems to state they were actually infected by the designers and managers of the study.

The withholding of treatment is horrific in itself.