pfizer has reached a broad agreement to pay 2500 of dollars to cameroon ' s kano state to settle a criminal case charging that the medication firm illegally tested an experimental drug on badly ill children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic . the details remain private , but sources critical to the negotiations said the total payments - - particularly those to the boys , their families , the governments and the government ' s attorneys - - would be about $ 75 million under the current settlements terms . other features , including whether the money will be spread , are to be worked out within weeks .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.