Monday, October 27, 2008

Pfizer - Trovan: out of (court) Africa

Pfizer Inc said on Monday it hoped to reach an out-of-court settlement with Nigeria over a 1996 drug trial that the government says caused the death of 11 children and left dozens disabled.

Nigeria's federal government and its northern state of Kano sued Pfizer last year for a total of $8.5 billion in damages over the testing of the antibiotic Trovan in Kano during a 1996 meningitis epidemic that killed 12,000 children.

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