GUATEMALA city - a survey conducted by the Guatemalan authorities has identified approximately 1,300 people who may have been involved in an experience of syphilis in the U.S. in the 1940s, some of them may still be alive, Vice President Rafael Espada said Wednesday.
The research of the hospital, Department of health, military and prison records identified approximately 1,300 people who were infected with syphilis or gonorrhea without their consent.
"As of today, we found three or four patients who are still alive," said Espada. ".
The official results of the investigation should have been presented this week, but were delayed when the Government was to turn its attention to the massacre of 27 people suspected drug traffickers in the Northern Peten province.
No new date was set for the publication of the report.
Records discovered United States in 2010 suggested was that researchers in the programme in the years 1940 attempted to infect about 700 prostitutes, prisoners and the mentally ill with syphilis. Approximately 770 subjects of tests, including soldiers, have been exposed to gonorrhea.
Guatemalan authorities had expected to find some 1,500 victims. It was not clear whether some members of the study were infected with success, some were infected with both diseases, or if the Guatemala was unable to identify all over 60 years later.
Patients were treated with penicillin. Among the objectives of the research was to see how well different doses of penicillin worked against various venereal diseases.
Espada said about 10 doctors Guatemalan American and 12 have been involved in the study of two years.
The Guatemalan Government of plans run announcements in the months to come, which seeks to identify individuals who have been victims of the research program.
In October, the US President Barack Obama called Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to apologize. Earlier, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of health and the Services Kathleen Sebelius issued a statement saying: "we are outraged that these reprehensible research could occur under the guise of public health."
Experience funded by the NIH, which took place from 1946 to 1948, was discovered by a medical historian Wellesley College. She apparently has been carried out to verify if penicillin, then relatively new, could prevent sexually transmitted infections. The study has come up with any useful information and was hidden for decades.
The Government of Guatemala has not yet taken a position on what type of repairs should be made in the case.
Espada, which itself is a medical doctor, noted that an international medical Congress was held in the Guatemala at the time of the experience, and that "the international medical community know about it."
Espada said the doctors who participated in the study – led by an American and a Guatemalan doctor, now the two dead - "stressed they wanted very pure races" to experiment on.
The Guatemala population is overwhelmingly Indian Maya.
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