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Article

30 Aug 2001

Author:
BBC News

Nigerians sue Pfizer over test deaths

A group of Nigerian families has sued the drugs giant Pfizer following the deaths of 11 children and injury to others who are said to have taken part in tests of a drug to treat meningitis...The suit alleges that the drug company did not obtain consent and did not explain that the proposed treatment was experimental.

Part of the following timelines

"Dying for drugs": Alleged abuses by pharmaceutical cos.; failure to sell certain life-saving drugs at affordable price

Pfizer lawsuit (re administration of experimental drug in Nigeria, filed in USA)