http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073001847.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Now ask yourself why the drug makers of the H1N1 vaccine have been given immunity from any liability that occurs from their fast tracked vaccine.
Just exactly whose pocket did get paid off and how far does that payoff extend?
Pfizer signed a $75 million agreement Thursday with Nigerian authorities to settle criminal and civil charges that the pharmaceutical company illegally tested an experimental drug on children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic.
Nigerian authorities say Pfizer's test of the antibiotic Trovan killed 11 children and disabled scores more. Pfizer says the deaths and injuries were the result of meningitis.
An attorney for the state of Kano, where the charges were lodged, said the settlement was a long time in coming but welcome because it set the record straight about Pfizer's culpability. "People and entities can and must be held accountable for the consequences of their conduct," the attorney, Babatunde Irukera, said. "People around the world are no different and must be accorded the same levels of protections, always."
