In 1932, the U.
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In 1997, President Bill C.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was exposed in 1972, and in 1975 the Government settled a lawsuit but stopped short of admitting wrongdoing.
Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated Syphilis in the Negro male." For the next 40 years--even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis--these men were denied Medical care for this potentially fatal disease.
In 1932, the U.
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