This is exactly the kind of mad-scientist stuff people accuse the Nazis of in order to build and maintain hatred of whiteness. It's not genetic engineering -- one of the most hated sciences on earth -- but it might as well be.
USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. 4um