the news source:
http://elpolvorin.over-blog.es/article-enjuician-al-laboratorio-pfizer-por-muertes-de-ni- os-in-nigeria-54754734.html
The first question, and sorry for myself between susceptible and suspicious, but this news
an agency like Reuters ( lying much as Clarín,
again I say more distraídxs vegan speak of these functions of the mass media
and large agencies for tens of years) and reproduce
various newspapers in the world, but neither here nor Clarín Página/12
seem to echo. The reasons have the Santa Fe newspaper "La Capital" (for high
Group One) be "one" to know them, but why not broadcast national
? (I insist, to my knowledge, but also put forward the questions that
course) Why did publish Página/12 (see below) the news of
IN NIGERIA trial in April 2009 (Ocaña management) and NO
ringing the same trial in the U.S.? Is there a nuance in the message from the government? If you look
what happened to Pfizer .... does not sound like the "experiment" that was submitted to
Argentina's population with the vaccine to the so-called
"Influenza A"? What tests were done and pregnant niñxs
to say that the vaccine is safe? What had to apply emergency
massive level not the dubious (to see if we eat the
idea that "science" of the industry does things seriously, there are dozens of cases
known-and I assume that thousands did not known-in which the IF designed the protocols
they "say" what it claims, and even hidden information
adverse effects and even death, and even sued to researchers
who discovered and published that, for example-Merk
discovered and concealed and even-repeat-prosecuted for libel
who said what they knew and kept quiet) then need to say exactly what
now says Manzur and repeat (both Clarín as Página/12, both TN and 6.7,
8) that the flu was "controlled" when you know that disappeared because it was a bluff
?
I invite you to read the information and reflect.
do not know the side effects the vaccine might have caused. We
data from a patient (physician, for details) died from a vasculitis that is attributed
(with as much evidence as the Ministry for state
safety of the product) to the application of the vaccine. And hundreds of effects
"minor" in the short term, and no serious device (of course far from the scale
have come to vaccinate in supermarkets as if it were
an uncontrollable epidemic of polio) to assess the long term.
Even if God did not help (despite the divine esponsoreo the Brazilian
Quilmes) in South Africa (and neither did in Nigeria with Pfizer
human guinea pigs, Africa's most neglected of God to us;
clear ) he did with the vaccine, the mechanism here was hundreds of times more evil than
Pfizer there. Acknowledge the lack of adverse events does not minimize the device
unethical for which were vaccinated in the manner
did.
not seem to understand that we are going to be a testing ground for drugs and chemicals
and quarry plunder
model extraction.
Now we finished the World Cup, and tomorrow calls us home again to
waving flags (provided there is a flag to entertain).
missing a month for the holiday of St. Martin and then to take breath that
end of the year will be the "celebrations" of Human Rights ...
Ah, the joy not to relax. Greetings Gonzalo
PD: the case, if it is not clear, is that the movie was filmed in "The Constant Gardener
." Nigeria in reality, Kenya in fiction ....
are so far away? And if we are, we are gaining a rapidly
promo travel to Africa? Without realizing it? And if we wake up?
Trial of Pfizer for deaths of children in Nigeria
07/01/1910 the demands of Nigerian families who accused the company
try an experimental antibiotic on their children without the proper consent and had fatal consequences in some cases.
Judges refused to review a ruling by an appeals court in New York
authorizing the progress of cases involving alleged
deaths from the drug Trovan.
Pfizer drug clinical trials conducted in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria
during a meningitis epidemic in 1996 that left thousands dead
. Families of some two hundred children participating said the test caused at least eleven deaths and other
According to legal filings, the company violated international law
not get proper consent from patients. The
actions sought unspecified damages on behalf of children involved in the study.
The laboratory said the trial was conducted with the approval
Nigerian government and had the agreement of parents or guardians of participants
. Pfizer said the trial did not violate the laws and Nigerian international.
The company said the appellate ruling expanded the jurisdiction of the Alien Tort Statute
, a bill of more than 200 years, on
U.S. corporations doing business abroad, raising issues of "national importance and internationally. "
A federal judge had initially rejected the claims arguing that
cases should be developed in Nigeria.
In 1998, the Administration n Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) approved the use of Trovan
but only for adults.
After problems were reported in the liver, its application was restricted
U.S. adults in cases of emergency.
The European Union banned its use in 1999.
Pfizer's appeal, saying that the issues presented do not justify a review of the Supreme Court.
The court rejected the request of the pharmaceutical company without
statements.
According to the laboratory, "the decision, however, is not a determination on the merits of these cases, but a failure
procedure."
again demands a federal judge in New York, where the company may try to reject
for various reasons, for example, that Nigeria
would be the appropriate place to conduct the trial.
"The company expects to present his case in court and remains confident that
expire," said Pfizer.
A story that, after four years, stripped a newspaper
In 1996, provided Pfizer in Nigeria, a new drug
200 children. Numerous testimonies realize that eleven of them died and the rest
still suffering after-effects of the experiment.
Earlier that year, an epidemic of cholera, meningitis and other diseases
devastated the north. Pfizer, the largest multinational pharmaceutical
, sent representatives to Kano, a city of clay governed by Islamic laws. The experts provided some
a hundred more.
The two children of journalist Alhaji Garba Maisikeli
disease and had received medication. Days after the doctors visit, the
man stood up and called one of his sons, "I replied. I could not hear, no talk . It was as if asleep but with his eyes open," said the veteran columnist
NTA and the BBC, Alvaro de Cozar.
a few days. the two children died.
medicines that relieve pain mysterious children. "Most lost consciousness. They were not moving," recalled Maisileki.
In a city like Kano, more than three million people (the third most populous
Nigeria, after Lagos and Ibadan), history
took four years to jump the walls and reach the halls of government of the capital, Abuja.
The U.S. newspaper The Washington Post found out about the history and
put its journalists in the case. The results of a year of research
on drug trials in Third World countries light contributed to the case of Nigeria.
Supposedly, Pfizer had tested a type of antibiotic in Kano
children without making the previous test.
That was further corroborated by one of the doctors of the company, Juan Walterspiel. The specialist had sent a letter to company executives
for other reasons.
The drug was approved shortly thereafter in Europe and the U.S.. The European Union withdrew it
the three months because it caused liver problems. In
United States is still used but only as emergency hospital treatment for severe infections.
A MULTINATIONAL PAY 75 MILLION DOLLARS TO VICTIMS OF THEIR EXPERIMENTS
The lab lost the case
http://www.pagina12 .com.ar / daily / company / 3-122789 - 2009 - 04-07. html
died or suffered failures in Nigeria, after having undergone the experiment a drug for meningitis, without permission.
The most exciting thing that had happened in the law firm of Richard
Altschuler, West Haven, Connecticut, was a case of divorce, until the phone rang
nine years ago. Across the line, a world away from the heat of Nigeria, was Eitgwe Uwo, a young lawyer
Lagos would file a lawsuit against the company unprecedented world's largest pharmaceutical, parents facing the
African American corporate giant. And he needed help.
Eitgwe Altschuler had chosen because, in 1979, the Connecticut attorney
had successfully defended a friend from Nigeria. The unusual pair
was to embark on a marathon journey into the world of "big drug laboratories." Nine years have passed and finally
75 million dollars, whose terms will probably be released this week. If sounds like the script of a Hollywood blockbuster is because this was the story that inspired
John Le Carré to write The Constant Gardener, according to Altschuler. And the Brazilian filmmaker
Fernando Meirelles filming the movie of the same
name, which received several Oscar.
In real life happened in Nigeria, not Kenya, where the book places the
history. In 1996, Pfizer needed to do human trials of
I expected it to be a successful pharmacist, a broad-spectrum could be taken in tablet form. The
Kano in Nigeria, in the midst of a frightful epidemic of meningitis, as called a "humanitarian mission." However, the plaintiffs argue that
was a test without medical clearance in acutely ill children. A team of doctors
Pfizer Nigeria took the field just when they had broken
epidemic that killed nearly 11,000 people. They settled
meters from a medical station run by the aid group Doctors Without Borders, which was providing
proven treatments to alleviate the epidemic. In
the crowd that had gathered at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kano
, 200 children were selected patients. Half were given doses of the experimental drug from Pfizer
called Trovan and the others were treated with an antibiotic proven
a rival company.
Eleven of the children died and many more are presumed
later suffered serious side effects, ranging from organ dysfunction to
brain damage. But given the virulence of meningitis, cholera and measles , the Pfizer team had their bags and after two weeks was
That may have been the end of the story if not for an employee of Pfizer
John Walterspiel. About 18 months after testing
doctor, wrote a letter to the then chief executive officer, William Steere , saying the trial had "violated ethical rules. "
insists Pfizer.
The company claims that only five children died after taking
Trovan and six died after receiving injections
certified drug Rocephin. The pharmaceutical giant said that it was meningitis that hurt children and not the drug test. But did
Zango. Sumaila says his son, then was 12, quedó sordo y mudo después de tomar parte en el ensayo. Pero
Pfizer niega esto y dice que habían recibido el consentimiento del Estado
nigeriano y de las familias de aquellos tratados. Presentó una carta de
permiso de un comité de ética de Kano. La carta resultó haber estado
antedatada y el comité había sido establecido un año después del ensayo
médico original.
Trovan nunca se convirtió en el éxito que Pfizer había esperado y ya no se
produce más. La Unión Europea prohibió la droga y fue finalmente retirada de
la venta en Estados Unidos. Parece que Pfizer finalmente puso fin a la nightmare to the deal last Friday. But the battle of Trovan may
In late January 2009, an appeals court in New York ruled that the case
Etigwe and Altschuler could be reviewed in the United States. The Connecticut attorney
says he can leave. "Our case is firmly raised in the United States, so the deal closes Nigerian
The Constant Gardener and see that this comes at great term .
** In The Independent of Britain. Página/12 Special *
* Translation: Celita Doyhambéhère *
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