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on 412 black men in the south (Fourtner/Herreid). The government ran tests to see the effects on blacks that were ill from being purposely infected with syphilis. This test was to benefit the health of white America. Many went insane, blind, and suicidal even after a cure was found to treat this disease. Even after penicillin became readily available, the test continued with deadly results. There was here to a need for vaccination only because America had created that need.

Finally, in 2004 there was a test conducted by the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine to see the difference in whites versus blacks taking the vaccine for smallpox. The pre-exposure statistics showed 66% of 190 white participants were willing to receive the vaccine while only 54% vs 77 %; P=.004 were willing take the shot. What does this mean (Armstrong/Gurmankin)? There are different perspectives of these two races on the need for vaccinations.
Nearly everyone here in America has some opinion on immunizations. I personally feel that there is no need for those vaccination shots. To create diseases to evaluate people physical reactions while sick, and dying for the sake of one race of people over another is diabolical. The necessity to vaccinate all Americans for health concerns is futile, since it is man that is causing the need in the first place for a dose of preventive medicine from illness. The need to receive a shot because the government is experimenting on the citizen's, is an inhumane, and criminal act against the American public.

Works Cited
Armstrong, Katrina and Gurmankin, Andrea. "Differential Willingness to Undergo Smallpox Vaccination Among African-American and White Individuals" www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/arti clerender.fcgi?artid=1492247
Fourtner, A.W. and Herreid, C.F. "Bad Blood: A Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project" www.ublib.buffalo.edu/librarie s/projects/cases/blood.htm
Gill, Harold. "Colonial Germ Warfare" Online Posting www.history.org/Foundation?jou rnal/Spring04/warfare.cfm
Grave s, Boyd. "The History of the Development of AIDS" Online Posting www.boydgraves.com/timeline/
Ja mes, John S. "Oral Interferon: Hope or Hype? www.aegis.com/pubs/atn/1990/AT N10101.html
Sanghavi, Darshak. Boston Globe Magazine www.zyz.com/survival/vaccinati ons

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