45 years ago, the nation learned about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Its repercussions are still felt today. [USAToday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/26/1712:00 PM

It was 45 years ago Tuesday when the nation first learned about the horrors of a federally funded experiment on unsuspecting African Americans with syphilis in rural Alabama — a study whose repercussions are still being felt today.

Medical researchers and providers withheld treatment from about 400 black men in Tuskegee, Ala., from 1932 to 1972 in order to study the course of the untreated disease. Researchers did not obtain informed consent from these men, nor did they tell them they were not being treated for syphilis. Instead, the men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.”

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Toy, go to https://www.usatoday.com/story...elt-today/506507001/]

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