From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
     - NOTE: May 18th, but just made the news   
      
   [Alabama]   
      
   The whistleblower who helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study has died   
      
     Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government   
       allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for   
       syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was   
       86.   
      
       Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer's disease in Rocklin, California,   
       according to his attorney, Minna Fernan.   
      
       Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for   
       his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research   
       scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The   
       Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led   
      to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972.   
      
       Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400   
       Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When   
       antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat the disease,   
       federal health officials ordered that the drugs be withheld. The study   
       became an observation of how the disease ravaged the body over time.   
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   rest:   
      
   https://www.al.com/news/2024/07/the-whistleblower-who-helped-end   
   the-tuskegee-syphilis-study-has-died.html   
      
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