WikiLeaks and Trovan

If you thought the WikiLeaks story had nothing for you, think again.  Today's New York Times discusses a State Department cable, made available via recent the WikiLeaks dump, alleging Pfizer's attempt to disrupt the Nigerian lawsuit following several deaths after the experimental use of Trovan in Kano in 1996.  According to the Times story, the State department accused Pfizer of hiring investigators " 'to uncover corruption links' to Nigeria’s former attorney general and apply pressure to drop lawsuits against the company."  Nigeria's former attorney general, Michael K. Aondoakaa, was quoted in the piece saying he knew nothing of any Pfizer attempt to investigate him. Pfizer denied the allegations as "simply preposterous".  This is just the latest in the continuing saga of Trovan in Nigeria, which we have talked about here and here.