People exposed to malaria in Austrian syphilis experiments

September 02, 2011

A man holds a ruler next to the arm of a woman who had been infected with a venereal disease in the late 1940s in an unknown location in Guatemala, in this undated picture released online in March 2011 by The National Archives at Atlanta. The archives released the papers of Dr. John C. Cutler, a former employee of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1942-1967. Cutler was involved in research on Guatemalan soldiers, prisoners, and mental health patients who were exposed to the syphilis bacteria. Some 1,300 people were infected with venereal disease, more than half of them with syphilis, by U.S. government researchers for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a U.S. presidential commission.' height='259' alt='Syphilis experiments' width='460' src='http://news.guugll.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/people-exposed-to-malaria-in-austrian-syphilis-experiments.jpg' />

An Austrian experts’ commission says hundreds of people, including children, were injected with the parasite which causes malaria as part of research for a cure against syphilis, long after penicillin was available.

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