Pfizer Criminals - Nigeria Victims 1996

Pfizer in 1996 after many criminal, illegal and immoral actions!

Officials in Kano say more than 50 children died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities and dozens left disabled after Pfizer gave them the experimental anti-meningitis drug, Trovan.

But Pfizer says only 11 of the 200 children used in the drug trial died."

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Pfizer was charged with failing to explain to the children’s parents that the proposed treatment was experimental, that they could refuse it, or that other organizations offered more conventional treatments at the same site free of charge.

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Half of the children who participated in Pfizer’s treatment program were deliberately given inadequate doses of ceftriaxone—an FDA-approved drug shown to be effective in treating meningitis—so that Trovan would look more effective by comparison.

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Five of the children who received Trovan and six of the children who were “low-dosed” with ceftriaxone died and others treated by Pfizer suffered very serious injuries, including paralysis, deafness and blindness.

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Hassan Sani, says his daughter Hajara, 14, was also given the drug.

He says the pill made his daughter deaf and unable to speak, and he wants the doctors involved to be treated as criminals.

Pfizer says these are symptoms of meningitis and there is nothing to suggest that Trovan killed or injured any children.

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"The American doctors took advantage of our illiteracy and cheated us and our children. We thought they were helping us," Mr Sani says.

"We did not suspect that our children were being used for an experiment. They have cheated us and our children. All I can say is that God will judge them according to their evil deeds.

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When a severe meningitis epidemic wreaked havoc in Nigeria in 1996, Pfizer saw a clear opportunity to make immeasurably obscene profits. This was reliant on a new vaccine that was tested on unsuspecting Nigerian children, with the hope that the approval of this new vaccine would usher super-profits for the pharmaceutical company. Because of the adverse effects which the vaccine had on the children (death and disabilities), Pfizer found itself fighting numerous lawsuits while denying liability (both criminal and civil) throughout.

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An experimental drug was tried on children without the proper [parental] consent having been obtained, and by flouting several health regulatory laws. The result was a protracted legal battle, in which corruption allegations on the side of Pfizer and the Nigerian government emerged.

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Learn Good from Evil.

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Pfizer’s Scandal in Nigeria – How An Experimental Vaccine Killed 11 Children in 1996
https://www.africanexponent.com/post/8120-pfizers-scandal-in-nigeria-how-an-experimental-vaccine-killed-11-children-in-1996