Pfizer’s Deadly Nigerian Drug Trial

Pfizer’s Deadly Nigerian Drug Trial

In 2009, Pfizer paid $75 million to families of Nigerian children who were unethically administered Trovafloxacin in a drug trial during a severe meningitis outbreak in Sub-Saharan Africa. The antibiotic led to the deaths of five children.

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