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Update: Pfizer Charged in Children's Deaths
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by Karen Hatter | August 11, 2007 at 05:34 pm
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The drug alleged to be responsible for the children's deaths and disabilities, Trovan, was administered during an epidemic of meninigitis. It was later removed from the market after it was shown to cause liver damage.
For more information, click here to read my article on these events, reported on May 31, 2007.
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at 21:50 on August 11th, 2007
Thanks for keeping this updated... it's not just the plot for The Constant Gardener, but something that happens in real life.
at 05:08 on August 12th, 2007
Sadly, the plot of Constant Gardener is often played out all over the so called Third World. I chafed at the characterization, in the Forbes article, that ignorance contributed to this particular situation. Whether the children and their parents were unlearned or not has nothing to do with Pfizer not releasing the names of the children given the drug nor the parents not being allowed to see their children after treatment began, as details of the suit alledge.
at 08:40 on August 12th, 2007
Nothing new, indeed: "human resources" takes on a whole new meaning. Reminds me of the Tuskegee experiments; when my dad first told me about Tuskegee, I thought he was making it up just to scare me.
at 11:51 on August 12th, 2007
It would be so comforting if the Tuskegee Experiment and all of the less famous abuses carried out in the name of science/medical research were horror fantasy. Thank you for providing the links, Jordan. I hope the practice of viewing the poor and those in need as 'human resources' for exploitation can be ended. Being poor and in need should not be synonymous for uninformed human guinea pig!