"...many in D.C. fear, decline to get H1N1 vaccine"

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"A lot of the older generation is talking about Tuskegee," she said, referring to a U.S. government experiment on poor black men that began in the 1930s in Alabama. Their syphilis wasn't treated once a cure existed, and researchers studied how the men suffered. "I said, 'Yes, you have to be mindful, but we've come a long way.'


"In the Maryland suburbs, they are more ready to accept it," Makia said. "They actually ask for it."