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Post by weebitty on Jul 23, 2009 11:32:51 GMT -5
I don't know where to put this but thought I would post it for the good of your health and others. This is one of the reason maybe we are getting into poor health. Also read my other post about Monsanto as well. I don't know where to put these but since we were talking about health issues maybe we can take health issues into our own hands before they take that away too!!! Which they are trying to do as well. www.naturalnews.com/026426_GMO_food_GMOs.html
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Post by weebitty on Jul 27, 2009 11:05:42 GMT -5
(NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed against it by Nigerian parents who claim the company caused harm to their children by using them as guinea pigs in a nonconsensual, unlicensed drug trial. The case began in 1996, when Pfizer needed a human trial to gain approval for its new antibiotic Trovan. When an epidemic of meningitis, cholera and measles broke out in Kano, Nigeria, the company quickly put together a research team and flew them to that country. Pfizer set up a tent right near the medical station where Doctors Without Borders were giving free treatments and recruited 200 children to participate in an unlicensed drug trial. Parents say they were not told that proven medications were being distributed only yards away, that their children were being enrolled in a drug trial, or that animal studies had suggested that Trovan could cause liver and joint damage. Eleven of the 200 children in the study died, and parents claim that others suffered from brain damage, organ failure and other severe side effects. The case broke when Pfizer researcher Juan Walterspiel, who had been schedule to take part in the trial but was left behind, wrote a letter to Pfizer's then chief executive William Steere, saying that the Kano study was "in violation of ethical rules." "Some of the children were in critical condition and most of them malnourished, which made oral absorption even more unpredictable," he wrote. "At least one died after a single oral dose." Class action lawsuits were filed against the company in a variety of jurisdictions in Kenya and the United States, while various levels of the Nigerian government also filed their own lawsuits against the company. The current settlement comes in a class action suit filed in Nigeria. In addition to a pending class action suit in the United States, Pfizer may still face criminal prosecution in Nigeria. In January 2008, a Nigerian judge issued arrest warrants for several top company officials after they failed to appear in court. Sources for this story include: www.independent.co.uk. I guess this didn't make national news either. At least I don't remember hearing about it. I guess they thought no one would notice what these drug companies do because it was in a foreign country.
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Post by crimsulent on Jul 31, 2009 19:43:42 GMT -5
this Nigerian episode is just another example of 'disaster capitalism' weebitty, i like your attitude and informative posts! if you are a reader, i humbly suggest you read the book, Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. multinational corporations cash in at every natural or man-made disaster. since no one stands up to them, they can fake disasters and get what they want, like Congress bailing out the financial sector, automakers, etc. Klein's book explained it all, and well before the financial meltdown last fall. concerned, politically-aware citizens like you would probably appreciate the book.
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