<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au">D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div><p class="MsoNormal">In the midst of a meningitis epidemic in 1996 in Northern Nigeria Pfizer set up a trial of <span><span style="color:black">trovafloxacin (Trovan). See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trovafloxacin" target="_blank">Wikipedia account of this controversy</a>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Now fast forward to: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Sarah Boseley (The Guardian, 2010_1209) <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/09/wikileaks-cables-pfizer-nigeria?INTCMP=SRCH" target="_blank">WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer 'used dirty tricks to avoid clinical trial payout'</a>. Cables say drug giant hired investigators to find evidence of corruption on Nigerian attorney general to persuade him to drop legal action</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Reuters (Friday Dec 10, 2010) <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B93DF20101210" target="_blank">WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer took aim at Nigeria Attorney General</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Now read the original US embassy cable (2009_0420, on Guardian website): <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/203205?INTCMP=SRCH" target="_blank">Pfizer nears $75m Nigeria settlement</a></p>
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