U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. ... U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States - studies that often involved making healthy people sick. ...
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