Viagra Confiscated at Airport by Egyptian Authorities, AP Says
Bloomberg News
August 12, 1998, 3:22 p.m. ET
Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Egyptian customs
officials confiscated 721 bottles of Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug
Viagra, worth about $300,000, from an Egyptian-American
pharmacist, the Associated Press reported, citing airport
officials. The officials said a man, whom they did not identify,
arrived from Turkey with the Viagra as well as other drugs; Egypt
banned Viagra in May, saying it wanted to conduct its own tests
on the drug even though it has been approved in the U.S. While
Viagra costs $10 per pill in the U.S., the drug has a black-
market value of about $18 per pill, AP said.
Earlier this month, Russia became the fifth country to
approve the use of Viagra.
(AP, 8/12, www.foxnews.com)
--Nathan Levy in the Princeton newsroom (609) 279-4093 /jjs
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