Pfizer won their case and they killed 11 kids.
Pfizer Case Over Test That Killed 11 Kids Could Blow the Lid Off Foreign Drug Trials
JUN 30, 2010 5:58 PM EDT MARKETS
BY JIM EDWARDS / MONEYWATCH
?The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to send the Pfizer (PFE) Trovan case to trial threatens to do the one thing the pharmaceutical industry most wishes won't happen: Reveal to Americans exactly how foreign drug trials are unregulated, sometimes dangerous and often unreliable.
The seemingly endless Trovan case involves Pfizer's test of a meningitis drug on 200 childrenin Kano, Nigeria, in 1996. Pfizer failed to get proper consent for the trial. Eleven kids died and the drug was eventually nixed because it was too dangerous. The events may have inspired the book and film, The Constant Gardener. Pfizer has attempted to do the right thing in recent years by settling the case for $75 million, but it's been stymied by local bureaucracy and corruption.
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