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30 Aoû 2001

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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.

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"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)