WHO reveals pandemic flu advisors with industry ties

Five of the 15 experts that advised the World Health Organisation about swine flu pandemic alerts had received support from the drugs industry, including for flu vaccine research, the WHO has revealed.
Read article at physorg.com
Comment by Dr Rath Foundation: The list of the WHO's influenza pandemic advisors with conflicts includes, amongst others, people with current and past grants and funding from GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Roche, Baxter, Sanofi Pasteur and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA).

Whitewash Review excuses colossal £1.2 Billion wasted on Swine Flu 'Pandemic' that never materialised.

See Daily Mail article. It's strange, isn't it? - Cohorts of Dept of Health lawyers can be marshalled to ensure that patients damaged by medical negligence get the short end of the stick when they try to get help from the system in their predicament, but the lawyers of the drug companies always run rings around the DoH lawyers when it comes to drawing up contracts about vaccines, and ensure that come Hell or high water, Big Pharma rakes in huge profits and the NHS pays for anything that goes wrong.

Paul Flynn MP denounces swine flu drugs lobby

I must apologise. - I read the Walesonline article a week ago and should have posted about it then, but tiredness intervened. Have a look also at this page from Paul Flynn's blog.

A Welsh MP has raised concerns that the swine flu pandemic was exaggerated under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry. Newport West MP Paul Flynn believes the H1N1 pandemic is the latest is a long line of health scares – including Sars and new variant CJD – to be blown out of proportion. He has welcomed a hearing to determine whether the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) pandemic flu declaration in June was based on “objective epidemiological evidence or on pressure from the pharmaceutical lobby”. The left-wing Labour MP, who has tabled two motions in the House of Commons in a bid to expose “the pandemic that never was”, said: “We have had four major scares throughout the world of potential mass-killer pandemics but they have been exaggerated.
Read article at walesonline.co.uk (Wales/UK)

Sleaze? the WHO advisor on vaccines and the secret Big Pharma cash?

A Finnish member of the World Health Organization board, an advisor on vaccines, has received 6 million Euros for his research center from the vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. Although WHO promises transparency, this conflict of interest is not available for the public to see at WHO’s homepage. Professor Juhani Eskola is the director of the Finnish research vaccine program and a new member of the WHO group ‘Strategic Advisory Group of Experts’ (SAGE). SAGE recommends which vaccines -- and how many -- member countries should purchase for the pandemic.
Read article at foodconsumer.org

Is it really correct to describe Swine Flu as a Pandemic?

In this Opinion Article in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Fumento questions the wisdom of the World Health Organisation in labelling the present swine flu illness a pandemic, when it has resulted in so few deaths (compared with pandemics of the past). The last words of his interesting article are: "For now, we'll pay in told and untold ways because the WHO has cried "havoc" and let slip the dogs of pandemic."