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Analysis Of The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (TSE) in Macon county, Alabama started in 1932 with a team of doctors and nurses, Dr. Raymond A. Vonderlehr, Dr. Eugene Gribble, and Nurse Eunice Rivers from the United States Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute set out to relieve the Syphilis epidemic in the rural black populations in America. Nearly 500 African-American people entered this study expecting to be treated and instead, about 128 died due to Syphilis and Syphilis related complications and hundreds more were prevented from receiving treatment – penicillin - for forty years when funding ran out. Syphilis as a disease is incredibly destructive, it is sexually or congenitally transmitted by the bacteria Treponema pallidum its initial symptoms
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