Other+Countries+-+Jesse

Many drug testing facilities lead the public to believe most testing happens in large, developed countries. However, a recent article from //VANITY FAIR// proves this common conception false.

“According to the database, of the 290 trials for Celebrex, 183 took place in the United States, meaning, one would assume, that 107 took place in other countries. But an informal, country-by-country accounting by //VANITY FAIR// turned up no fewer than 207 Celebrex trials in at least 36 other countries. They ranged from 1 each in Estonia, Croatia, and Lithuania to 6 each in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Russia, to 8 in Mexico, 9 in China, and 10 in Brazil. But even these numbers understate the extent of the foreign trials. For example, the database lists five Celebrex trials in Ukraine, but just “one” of those trials involved studies in 11 different Ukrainian cities” (Barlett and Steele). Basically, Celebrex trials took place in the vicinity of on every continent except Australia, and most of the countries, have large amounts of poverty.

This is not uncommon to the least extent. Overseas testing is a daily occurrence in many parts of the world.

Many continents, like South America, have a large population that does not even understand what they are getting into before the testing takes places. Cannessa, a South American resident, found out this harsh reality after taking her son into the emergency room with an extreme case of diarrhea. “I didn’t understand some of the words,” she said. “But they told me, //Apurate, mamita. Apurate//.' Hurry, hurry" (Kelly Hearn).

Later, Cannessa found what the hospital gave her son an untested, genetically notified substance. This not only returned her sons diarrhea, but caused other severe health conditions to her son and many more. Many more.

“Nobody said anything about it being an experiment,” she told me. “I would never have agreed if I had known. I worry all the time.”

For other examples of South American drug trials visit: http://www.thenation.com/article/163547/rise-unregulated-drug-trials-south-america?page=full

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101