Going down the wrong path

WHO and the Swine Flu

In pushing narcotic and psychotropic drugs to governments around the world, WHO's message focused on the sensitive issue of pain associated with cancer — a message that people and governments could not afford to ignore.

⊕ Further reading
A Whole Industry is Waiting For A Pandemic, SPIEGEL International , 21 July 2009

HSE ‘misled’ public on swine flu vaccine, claims teen with narcolepsy

UK GOVERNMENT TO COMPENSATE BRAIN-DAMAGED VICTIMS OF SWINE FLU VACCINE

Appendix 4.6 Pandemrix and Narcolepsy - Mapping of international studies, in The Swedish Research Council's mapping of research related to the etiology and treatment of the disease Narcolepsy, pages 38--41

In 1999, WHO had started work on yet another 'Guidance Document'— Influenza Pandemic Plan: The Role of WHO and Guidelines for National and Regional Planning. In this document, WHO's guidance authors invoked the fear of a devastating toll of deaths and illnesses from pandemics to urge governments to take major action:

It is impossible to anticipate when a pandemic might occur. Should a true influenza pandemic virus appear that behaved as in 1918, even taking into account the advances in medicine since then, unparalled tolls of illness and death would be expected.

Yet, the actions that it recommended mostly favoured the pharmaceutical industry — stockpile antivirals, support the development of pandemic vaccines.

A decade later, WHO declared the Swine Flu Pandemic on 10 June 2009 and the machinery envisaged in the WHO guidelines started grinding.

Now turned up, the machinery was set into motion. Researchers got to work examining the molecular structure of the virus. The pharmaceutical industry started to develop vaccines. Government agencies laid out disaster plans. There was only one thing that everyone was ignoring: The new pathogen was, in fact, relatively harmless.

The subsequent investigations into WHO's handling of the Swine Flu by journalists, politicians, and scientific journals, and the irreversible brain damages that the Swine Flu vaccine inflicted on thousands of children across Europe are well described in the documentary below.

For me, the opening lines of an investigative report by BMJ and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism highlights the insidious relation between Big Pharma and WHO best:

"Key scientists advising the WHO on planning for an influenza pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance they were preparing. These conflict of interests have never been publicly disclosed by WHO, and WHO has dismissed inquiries into its handling of the A/H1N1 pandemic as conspiracy theories