After Henrietta's death for a while, there is a plane for Hela cells factory. The biggest problem is polio epidemic in the end of 1951.NFIP contacts with Doc. Gey for help. In April 1952, Gey and his colleague who from NFIP found what exactly Hela cells was.They send Hela cells to different place for scientists to research and experiment. Tuskegee Center supplys Hela cells to Polio testing lab and there is also a Hela production factory.Later, those researchers and scientists expose Hela cells to viruses of all kind, they study how each one enter cells,reproduce, and spread. Hela cells get successful experiment.In1953,Gey takes Hela cells to study hemorrhagic fever, which was killing American troops at Far East.Pomerat suggests that Gey should be done Hela research before it is publiced to society. When Minneapolis Star interviews GEY about Hela cells, he decides to take out Henrietta's real name and use other name to instead.Even other scientists disagree with him.Finally, Helen Lane is instead of Henrietta's name appear on the magazine.
After Henrietta's funeral, cousins take care of her children when Day is working on two jobs. The biggest son of Henrietta,Lawrence drops out the school and he serves two years in a medic unit at Fort Belvoir when he was 16 years old. At this time, Ethel moves in the house and takes care of those children.But she does not take any responsibility to them,she even abuses and often beats them. In 1959,Lawrence and his girlfriend move in a new house. They find Ethel who had been beat Deborah and his brothers. They pick them to her own house. While Deborah was 10 years old, Ethel's Husband tried to have a sex with her. She againsts him and she is afraid to tell anyboday about that. When she asks her dad about her mom and sister, Day never gives her answer and he only can say she is too young to remember.
Author visits Henrietta's cousin,Cliff brings her to Henrietta's graveyard. He also tells author about Henrietta's family history.
Hela cells are growing well in laboratories around the world. Southam wants to inject cancer cells on humans when Gey and several others had already shown that some rats grew tumor with Hela cells. He injects those cancer cells on 25 volunteers body and prisoners in 1956. The worst thing is he does not tell anybody that they are injected by cancer cells.In 1947 8,20, Sixteen years earlier U.S led war tribunal in Nuremberg which uses humans in laboratory. In 1954, there is no formal research oversight in the United States.
Impression:
The scientists lost their humanity when they injected Hela cells into human' s body!
Question:
Does the county has a law to stop this action,which scientists inject cancer cells to human's body?
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