EU Council Says "WHO, Vastly Over rated Swine Flu" 6/25/10

Looks like some are actually telling the truth of what is.  I wonder, how much was given to the pharma companies last year?

Also, I still have the concern they have now combined the seasonal flu vaccines with the Swine Flu vaccine, for this coming Flu season. 

Threats of a swine flu pandemic were 'vastly over-rated' by the World Health Organisation, an inquiry has concluded.

The Council of Europe last night also accused the UN's health arm of 'grave shortcomings' in the process that led it to declare a pandemic last year.

Plummeting confidence in health advice could prove 'disastrous' in the event of a severe future pandemic, parliamentarians at the Strasbourg-based senate said. 

The assembly also accused the WHO of being 'highly defensive' of its handling of the outbreak and drugs companies of influencing the decisions taken.

Members, including five British MPs, voted overwhelmingly in favour for greater transparency in public health decisions.

It wants governments to 'ensure that the private sector does not gain undue profit from public health scares' and drug companies to revise their rules to ensure any potential conflicts of interests are made public.

The debate and recommendations follow a report which described the declaration of the H1N1 pandemic as a ' monumental error' driven by drug companies  -  spreading fear and wasting huge amounts of money.

Paul Flynn, the British MP who led the Council Of Europe probe, described it as 'a pandemic that never really was'.

Mr Flynn said predictions of a 'plague' that would wipe out up to 7.5million people proved to be 'an exaggeration', with fewer than 20,000 deaths worldwide.

Britain braced itself for up to 65,000 deaths and signed vaccine contracts worth £540million.

The actual number of deaths was less than 500 and the country is now desperately trying to unpick the contracts and unload millions of unused jabs.

The focus on swine flu also led to other health services suffering and widespread public fear.

Pharmaceutical companies, however, profited to the tune of £4.6billion from the sale of vaccines alone.

Mr Flynn said: 'There is not much doubt that this was an exaggeration on stilts. They vastly over-stated the danger on bad science and the national governments were in a position where they had to take action.

'In Britain, we have spent at least £1billion on preparations, to the detriment of other parts of the health system. This is a monumental failure on the WHO's part.'

The WHO has firmly rejected all the criticism, saying the outbreak fitted the criteria for a pandemic - and to claim otherwise was disrespectful to  those killed by the virus and their families.

It also takes the view that not all ties to drug companies are necessarily conflicts of interest.

European Parliament to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal 1/3/10 5:06pm

European Parliament to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal

I sincerely hope everyone had An Awesome Holiday Season!
I am back after spending 2 weeks traveling and spending time with family!

I love the European Parliament has the Balls to stand up and say WHO committed Fraud to get the Pharma Companies Billions of Dollars from all Governments for Vaccines for a FAKE Pandemic!!

Article:

The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death.


The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now chairman of the Health Committee of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). Wodarg is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, a specialist in lung disease and environmental medicine, who considers the current “pandemic” Swine Flu campaign of the WHO to be “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the Century.”[1]

The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The "bird-flu"-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu"-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies.”[2]

The Parliamentary inquiry will look into the issue of „falsified pandemic“ that was declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of its group of academic experts, SAGE, many of whose members have been documented to have intense financial ties to the same pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, who benefit from the production of drugs and untested H1N1 vaccines. They will investigate the influence of the pharma industry in creation of a worldwide campaign against the so-called H5N1 “Avian Flu” and H1N1 Swine Flu. The inquiry will be given “urgent” priority in the general assembly of the parliament.

In his official statement to the Committee, Wodarg criticized the influence of the pharma industry on scientists and officials of WHO, stating that it has led to the situation where “unnecessarily millions of healthy people are exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines,” and that, for a flu strain that is “vastly less harmful” than all previous flu epidemics.

Wodarg says the role of the WHO and its the pandemic emergency declaration in June needs to be the special focus of the European Parliamentary inquiry. For the first time, the WHO criteria for a pandemic was changed in April 2009 as the first Mexico cases were reported, to make not the actual risk of a disease but the number of cases of the disease basis to declare “Pandemic.” By classifying the swine flu as pandemic, nations were compelled to implement pandemic plans and also the purchase swine flu vaccines. Because WHO is not subject to any parliamentary control, Wodarg argues it is necessary for governments to insist on accountability. The inquiry will also to look at the role of the two critical agencies in Germany issuing guidelines on the pandemic, the Paul-Ehrlich and the Robert-Koch Institute.

Bravo!

Bet Some Don't Like this Medical Article out of Manila, says H1N1 Benign Virus11/23/09 1:55pm

Bet Some Don't Like this Medical Article out of Manila, says H1N1 Benign Virus

Article:

Q. Please give us an update on the A (H1N1) flu that had the country in near panic a few months ago. Why has US President Obama recently declared the A (H1N1) a national emergency?

--Synia K., Makati City

A. It is now evident that the strain of the influenza A (H1N1) virus that first surfaced in Mexico in April is not as virulent as initially feared. Although the virus has managed to spread to practically the whole world in a matter of months, the figures are not that alarming. As of October 17, 2009, World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show that only more than 414,000 laboratory confirmed cases of the A (H1N1) flu have been reported. In the Philippines, where the first case of the disease was diagnosed last May 22, only 5,212 cases have been reported by the Department of Health (DOH) as of October 18.

Many countries have stopped counting individual cases of the A (H1N1) flu, particularly of milder illness, thus, the actual number of people affected is significantly much higher than what WHO statistics show. Despite this however, the virus is obviously not that highly communicable, because a really highly communicable virus, according to many experts, cannot really be contained and its spread is explosive.

It is now also apparent that the influenza A (H1N1) virus is benign. Most people who have become ill with the virus simply experienced typical flu symptoms and recovered without requiring medical treatment. To date, nearly 5,000 people have died from the disease, which makes the fatality rate from the A (H1N1) flu a mere 1.2% of reported cases. In the Philippines, the fatality rate is even much lower, only 30 deaths have been reported so far and many of those who died have other existing medical conditions.

In retrospect, the initial overreaction of governments to the A (H1N1) flu pandemic is understandable. After all, this current A (H1N1) flu virus has many similarities to the Spanish flu, which killed millions of people worldwide in 1918: it originated from animals (the Spanish flu from birds and the present one from pigs); it has acquired the capability for sustained human to human transmission; and, since it is a novel virus, there is no vaccine against it and most people have little or no immunity to it. But the behavior of the flu A (H1N1) virus has since revealed its benign nature.

All things considered, getting infected with the influenza A (H1N1) is no more dreadful than getting infected with the other seasonal flu viruses that are ever present worldwide. But if this is so, why has US President Barrack Obama declared the A(H1N1) flu a national emergency?

Essentially, the declaration is a preemptive move for easier decision making and mobilization of resources. For example, the declaration will accelerate the immunization of target groups (i.e., high-risk groups including health care workers) with the flu A (H1N1) vaccine that has recently become available. The vaccines have to be administered before the advent of the flu season, which in the US coincides with the start of winter. This will prevent the spread of the flu A (H1N1) virus and more importantly, will minimize the chance of the flu A (H1N1) virus and any of the seasonal flu viruses from infecting the same person at the same time, which will make it possible for the flu A (H1N1) virus to recombine its genetic material with the other flu virus and allow for the development of a newer potentially more virulent strain.

On the whole, and partly because of what the US is doing about the pandemic, Filipinos need not worry about this disease more than they do now. In fact, our Department of Health (DOH) is not about to implement measures outside those already in place.

(E-mail inquiries on health matters to: medical_notes@yahoo.com or wellbeing@mb.com.ph.)