Postby *jr » Thu May 31, 2007 12:46 am
Pfizer ( most influential drag company in the US) is testing children of Africa with their so called test on human experiment
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KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian state has filed criminal charges against Pfizer Inc. for its alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic, court papers showed on Wednesday.
”The accused persons caused an untested and unregistered drug ... to be administered on about 2000 children without an informed consent from parents," said the criminal charge sheet, adding that they had acted in a "rash and negligent manner".
The acts of the accused persons endangered human lives by causing side-effects (such) as deafness, muteness, paralysis, brain damage, loss of sight, flawed speech and even death," the document added in a "summary of evidence".
Officials in Kano have alleged for years that Pfizer's actions resulted in the deaths of some of the children and left others with permanent health problems
The state government alleges Pfizer selected children and infants from crowds at a makeshift epidemic camp and gave about half of the group Trovan, which it says was untested at the time.
The company said that at the time of the meningitis outbreak, Trovan was in late-stage development and had been evaluated in 5,000 patients.
The Washington Post newspaper in the United States said it obtained internal Pfizer records that showed five children died after being treated with Trovan.
Six children died while taking the comparison drug," the paper said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared Trovan for adult use in 1997 but did not approve the drug for use by American children.
