Pfizer Vaccine In Kano

To test the efficacy of its new antibiotic trovafloxacin trovan the team conducted an open label trial in 200 children half were given the gold standard treatment for meningitis ceftriaxone and half received trovafloxacin.

Pfizer vaccine in kano. Trovan also known as. But in march a kano federal high court ruled that parents of children treated with trovan could sue pfizer for administering the vaccine without their prior consent. Working together for a healthier world founded in 1849 pfizer is the world s premier biopharmaceutical company taking new approaches to better health. Pfizer gave the children a substantially reduced dose of the ceftriaxone relative to that.

And biontech s covid 19 vaccine has shown incredible results in more than 90 of infections in a study of thousands of volunteers. To test its new antibiotic trovafloxacin pfizer gave 100 children trovafloxacin while another 100 received the gold standard anti meningitis treatment ceftriaxone a cephalosporin antibiotic. Pfizer inc had on monday disclosed that its experimental vaccine which it is jointly developing with biontech was more than 90 effective in preventing. We look at the history of clinical vaccine trials and exploitation of vulnerable people in the u s.

A hundred children were given an experimental. The kano trovafloxacin trial litigation arose out of a clinical trial conducted by the pharmaceutical company pfizer in 1996 in kano nigeria during an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis. In brief the bmj reports that in 1996 pfizer sent a team to kano during an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis. The results of pfizer s clinical study showed that trovan helped save lives and was at least as effective as the best treatment available at kano s infectious disease hospital.