“Nigerians Can Sue Pfizer over Drug Test,” US Court Rules.
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Published: July 8, 2010
“Nigerians Can Sue Pfizer over Drug Test,” US Court Rules.
By Johnson Eniku
The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Tuesday by pharmaceutical company Pfizer to prevent 192 Nigerian families from suing the group over allegedly unauthorized drug tests. Tuesday’s ruling means the Nigerians can now continue with their cases in US courts. The families claim the drug company broke international law by testing the antibiotic Trovan on 200 children suffering from meningitis in 1996 without their proper consent. The lawsuits say 11 children died and many others were left blind, paralyzed or brain-damaged after the two-week trial. Pfizer denies the accusations and claims that it obtained verbal consent from the families. It also argues that the children who took the drug had better survival rates than the others. A combined outbreak of meningitis, measles and cholera killed more than 12,000 people in Nigeria in 1996.
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