Swine flu pandemic hoax 2009

In 2009, a new H1N1 influenza virus emerged, causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, called Swine Flu. On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic and raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to phase 6, which means the virus was spreading to other parts of the world.

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Strasbourg, 24.06.2010 – At the end of a debate on the handling of the H1N1 pandemic, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today endorsed the conclusions of its Health Committee, which were published on 4 June last. According to the Assembly, the handling of the pandemic by the...

The 2009 Swine Flu Profiteers In 2009, the world greatly feared a new virus showing up in Mexico. After a few months, it quickly turned out it was as good as harmless, with only a few hundred people confirmed dead from it, worldwide.(Later numbers in Wikipedia are significantly higher, but are still estimates) Even so, the World Health Organization decided to declare a pandemic.The directions from the WHO are not binding for the states, but they create a strong political pressure. WHO's decision to raise it from alert phase 4-5 to phase 6 was based on technical criteria that was decided in advance,based on geographic distribution. How many people actually die or get seriously ill in the world, is no longer a criterion for declaring a pandemic, geographic distribution is more important. The raising to phase 6 meant billions of dollars in investments, in vaccines and medicines. The pharma industry and the WHO were in agreement. The worldwide flu danger makes use of medicines necessary. The measures that most states implemented after the declaration were based on WHO warnings. In France, five months after the outbreak of swine flu, the Health Minister still regards it as highly dangerous, even though that was already obviously not the case. There are a number of people who have worked in the pharmaceutical industry and have carried that way of thinking over into the WHO, and in such a way that they make sure WHO's decisions are friendly to the pharma industry. Also politicians and scientists have close economic and career ties to the pharma industry At the beginning of the millennium, the pharma industry faced slim pickings. There were no new, innovative products, and one asked oneself how to keep up profits.So the specialists in the pharma industry pushed the development of the vaccine sector, where they invented epidemic warnings and pandemics, to boost the sale of vaccines. The first thing that was attempted, was the much quoted bird flu. It is worth noticing that all the experts crying out against swine flu, were the same as the ones that cried out against bird flu. With the pandemic declaration, a principle of pharma marketing was adopted. The pharma industry can sell their products better when people are frightened, So one has to create a fear psychosis, so that people get weak and demand the vaccine and flu medicine like Tamiflu. The pharmaceutical company Roche had made giant profits from Tamiflu once before. The bird flu gave the company record revenues, There were no evidence that this drug reduced the risk of severe complications or made hospital stays unnecessary, but governments bought the medicine for billions of dollars for the anticipated swine flu.

Key scientists advising the World Health Organization on planning for an influenza pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance they were preparing. These conflicts of interest have never been publicly disclosed by WHO, and WHO has dismissed inquiries into its handling of the A/H1N1 pandemic as “conspiracy theories.” Deborah Cohen and Philip Carter investigate Watch the BMJ/The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's video on WHO and disclosure. This video has also appeared on Al Jazeera and guardian.co.uk. Next week marks the first anniversary of the official declaration of the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic. On 11 June 2009 Dr Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organization, announced to the world’s media: “I have conferred with leading influenza experts, virologists, and public health officials. In line with procedures set out in the International Health Regulations, I have sought guidance and advice from an Emergency Committee established for this purpose. On the basis of available evidence, and these expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met…The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic.” It was the culmination of 10 years of pandemic preparedness planning for WHO—years of committee meetings with experts flown in from around the world and reams of draft documents offering guidance to governments. But one year on, governments that took advice from WHO are unwinding their vaccine contracts, and billions of dollars’ worth of stockpiled oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza)—bought from health budgets already under tight constraints—lie unused in warehouses around the world. A joint investigation by the BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that raises troubling questions about how WHO managed conflicts of interest among the scientists who advised its pandemic planning, and about the …

Exactly the same thing is happening now, but on a far larger and more draconian scale.Channel 4's John Snow reports on the Council of Europe's investigation ...