People exposed to malaria in Austrian syphilis experiments

Friday, May 2, 2014 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

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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