CDC recorded 1,244,180 chlamydia cases in 2009, the largest number ever reported for any condition, a rate of 409.2 per 100,000 and up 2.8 percent from 2008. The rate among women ran nearly three times that among men, reflecting how many women are screened.
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U.S. Apologizes for Unethical Studies on Sexually Transmitted Disease
US officials apologized for studies in which a federal doctor infected Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mental patients with sexually transmitted diseases without consent between 1946 and 1948. Of 497 people in the syphilis experiments, 427 were infected and 71 died during the studies.
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U.S. Apologizes for Unethical Studies on Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The United States apologized for experiments a federal doctor ran in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, deliberately exposing prisoners, soldiers and mental patients to sexually transmitted diseases without consent. Of 497 syphilis subjects, only 85 were documented as fully treated; 71 died.
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