Swine flu is ‘one of the greatest medical scandals of the century’ says eminent epidemiologist
(Tim Edwards wrote this for The First Post - click the link at the end to read the full piece)
An eminent doctor has described the swine flu pandemic as "one of the greatest medical scandals of the century" perpetrated by big pharma and the World Health Organisation.
Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, an epidemiologist, claims the WHO was persuaded to change the definition of 'pandemic' by scientists linked to pharmaceutical companies in order to trigger lucrative 'sleeping' vaccination contracts.
The accusations are to be investigated by the Council of Europe after Dr Wodarg, the chairman of the body's health committee, tabled a damning resolution.
Dr Wodarg's allegations of a "false pandemic" pose a serious threat to the big pharmaceutical companies, which have profited considerably since the WHO declared swine flu a pandemic in June 2009 even though it was already clear that the mortality of people contracting the virus, also known as H1N1, was even lower than in normal seasonal flu. GlaxoSmithKlein is estimated to have made $1.7 billion from sales of H1N1 vaccine sales in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone.
Lower than expected uptake of the vaccine has led to a huge oversupply, to the extent that France, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are all attempting to sell or give away surplus shots - or cancel orders, where possible.
Britain, where a mere 360 people have died, has taken delivery of around 30 million doses of a total order of 90 million from GSK and Baxter International at an estimated cost of £100m. Although there is a break clause in the contract with Baxter, there is none with GSK. David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the Department of Health, said there are a number of options, including "selling vaccines or giving them away".
Dr Wodarg claims the WHO "in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm threshold" so that governments would begin to order vaccines.
"From June 2009," he explains, "it was no longer necessary, that 'an enormous amount of people [should] have contracted the illness or died'. There simply had to be a virus, spreading beyond borders; one that people had no immunity towards."
Dr Wodarg sees the root cause as lying in governments' responses to the avian flu (H5N1) outbreak of 2004. That virus, which had a far higher mortality of between 20 and 90 per cent, led to governments putting in place 'sleeping contracts' with pharmaceutical companies. These agreements are automatically triggered when the WHO declares a pandemic.
"'In this way," says Dr Wodarg, "the producers of vaccines are sure of enormous gains without having any financial risks.
[read the full article on The First Post's site here]
[if you're on Facebook, click 'view original post' or whatever it is]
Related links:
http://www.theflucase.com/
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/swinefluindex.shtml (though quite a lot of this seems to be conspiracy bonkers too)
An eminent doctor has described the swine flu pandemic as "one of the greatest medical scandals of the century" perpetrated by big pharma and the World Health Organisation.
Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, an epidemiologist, claims the WHO was persuaded to change the definition of 'pandemic' by scientists linked to pharmaceutical companies in order to trigger lucrative 'sleeping' vaccination contracts.
The accusations are to be investigated by the Council of Europe after Dr Wodarg, the chairman of the body's health committee, tabled a damning resolution.
Dr Wodarg's allegations of a "false pandemic" pose a serious threat to the big pharmaceutical companies, which have profited considerably since the WHO declared swine flu a pandemic in June 2009 even though it was already clear that the mortality of people contracting the virus, also known as H1N1, was even lower than in normal seasonal flu. GlaxoSmithKlein is estimated to have made $1.7 billion from sales of H1N1 vaccine sales in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone.
Lower than expected uptake of the vaccine has led to a huge oversupply, to the extent that France, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are all attempting to sell or give away surplus shots - or cancel orders, where possible.
Britain, where a mere 360 people have died, has taken delivery of around 30 million doses of a total order of 90 million from GSK and Baxter International at an estimated cost of £100m. Although there is a break clause in the contract with Baxter, there is none with GSK. David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the Department of Health, said there are a number of options, including "selling vaccines or giving them away".
Dr Wodarg claims the WHO "in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm threshold" so that governments would begin to order vaccines.
"From June 2009," he explains, "it was no longer necessary, that 'an enormous amount of people [should] have contracted the illness or died'. There simply had to be a virus, spreading beyond borders; one that people had no immunity towards."
Dr Wodarg sees the root cause as lying in governments' responses to the avian flu (H5N1) outbreak of 2004. That virus, which had a far higher mortality of between 20 and 90 per cent, led to governments putting in place 'sleeping contracts' with pharmaceutical companies. These agreements are automatically triggered when the WHO declares a pandemic.
"'In this way," says Dr Wodarg, "the producers of vaccines are sure of enormous gains without having any financial risks.
[read the full article on The First Post's site here]
[if you're on Facebook, click 'view original post' or whatever it is]
Related links:
http://www.theflucase.com/
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/swinefluindex.shtml (though quite a lot of this seems to be conspiracy bonkers too)
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