Pfizer to Pay Tens of Millions for Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment

David Gutierrez
NaturalNews
Friday, July 24, 2009

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed against it by Nigerian parents who claim the company caused harm to their children by using them as guinea pigs in a nonconsensual, unlicensed drug trial.

The case began in 1996, when Pfizer needed a human trial to gain approval for its new antibiotic Trovan. When an epidemic of meningitis, cholera and measles broke out in Kano, Nigeria, the company quickly put together a research team and flew them to that country. Pfizer set up a tent right near the medical station where Doctors Without Borders were giving free treatments and recruited 200 children to participate in an unlicensed drug trial.

Parents say they were not told that proven medications were being distributed only yards away, that their children were being enrolled in a drug trial, or that animal studies had suggested that Trovan could cause liver and joint damage.

Eleven of the 200 children in the study died, and parents claim that others suffered from brain damage, organ failure and other severe side effects.

The case broke when Pfizer researcher Juan Walterspiel, who had been schedule to take part in the trial but was left behind, wrote a letter to Pfizer’s then chief executive William Steere, saying that the Kano study was “in violation of ethical rules.”

“Some of the children were in critical condition and most of them malnourished, which made oral absorption even more unpredictable,” he wrote. “At least one died after a single oral dose.”

Class action lawsuits were filed against the company in a variety of jurisdictions in Kenya and the United States, while various levels of the Nigerian government also filed their own lawsuits against the company.

The current settlement comes in a class action suit filed in Nigeria. In addition to a pending class action suit in the United States, Pfizer may still face criminal prosecution in Nigeria. In January 2008, a Nigerian judge issued arrest warrants for several top company officials after they failed to appear in court.

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15 Responses to “Pfizer to Pay Tens of Millions for Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment”

susan Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 6:11 am
why arent these PFIZER wankers in jail?

nikoli Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 10:58 am
i am wondering the same thing Susan.

Why are they still operating…

The company should be shut down. Who knows what else there doing. killing children around the world.

If i done that, i would be in jail, but PFIZER can pay 75 million dollars and recive a get out of jail free card.
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July 24th, 2009 at 6:50 am
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hellferbreakfast Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 7:18 am
These murders will have a special place in hell. Maybe close to algore.
Joel the K Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Oh the shame of it. What these out of control freaks are doing to innocent children. To those who condone such atrocity against God’s children I say it would be better for you if a millstone were tied around your neck and cast into the depths of the sea, than to hurt even ONE of these little one’s. There will be a reckoning. Karma will be paid in full, in this life or the next. Do those criminal freaks think they can go on doing these hellish activities? On judgement day, all I ask for is a bag of popcorn and a front row seat. I want to see it. JUSTICE. I too will be judged. I am not perfect. But unlike these NWO freaks, I KNOW that nobody gets away with ANYTHING. Those freaks think they are untouchable. Oh no freaky perverts, the LORD THY GOD WILL TOUCH THEE. THAT DAY SHALL DAWN. And you will try to hide in the rocks, and there will be no HIDING from your own mind made manifest. You will be your OWN HELL. Repent! Repent now. Stay this madness. Stop this evil. Repent now while you still can.
Denise Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 9:51 am
1Timothy 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron
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mikesceptical Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Quantummonkeybutt,
where did you get this information or where can I find this information? nothing like this goes without notice in the media.
Rob in CT Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
“In January 2008, a Nigerian judge issued arrest warrants for several top company officials after they failed to appear in court.”

Thanks be to God! Now these killers are wanted men. Better take a trip to Nigeria before the police get to you!
steve76 Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
think this would be on fox news

crazy but nice''' Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Nah it wouldn’t be on FOX news there to busy with all the importent news ishues like whats going on in the entertainment industry michael jackson could have been a closet homosexuael or brittney fucking spears latest fling” a buntch of poor kids being murdered by there buddies”’just isent news worthy besides its nothing new for them””its just another days work ”””
Freedom Lives! Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I detect miore than a strong hint of racism at Pfizer. Its OK to do this to African children, right Pfider? So where is the outrage from Obama? I guess money is the great equalizer. Judas sold out Jesus for 30 sheckles and how much to Obama in campaign money?

Any African Americans out there listening? Where is your great leader on this attrocity?
Deb Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Pfizer and others use American kids as guinea pigs every day. And parents pay for it. It is called the well baby check up where four or five shots are administered. New vaccines are administered with little reliable testing. Parents are told these shots are perfectly safe and are harmless. If they are told anything at all.
World wide, not just in Africa, this is standard operating procedure. The road to hell. . .
Miss K Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Go read the story by a journalist in Austria . Lawsuit filed over Swine Flu vaccine
coverup .

Read the story at http://www.birdflu666.wordpress.com

We are all on the radar , with this WHO pandemic H1N1 . How did it spread
all over the world from a pig farm in Mexico so fast. We need answers .
This story needs to be told all over the world. She lost her job over this.
kyle s. Says:
July 25th, 2009 at 1:28 am
We should all get millions, we are the experiment. You think the FDA does long term tests? No, we are the guinea pigs, especially the kids going into the military. I gotta stop coming to this site, it’s too depressing. When is this crap gonna unfold? Do you want us to rebel or kill ourselves out of desperation Alex?