German Magazine Reveals Drug Companies' Influence to Engineer Swine Flu Fake Pandemic
Posted by Dr. Mercola | April 22 2010
[img_r]http://media.mercola.com/imageserver/public/2010/April/4.22swineflu.jpg[/img_r]When the swine flu first emerged, World Health Organization officials estimated that between 2 and 7.4 million could die. The panic that ensued mounted worldwide vaccination programs while government agencies prepared for disaster.
But as the world now knows, swine flu was actually relatively harmless and the deadly pandemic never emerged. As it turns out, those who suspected a greed- and money-driven conspiracy was at play may have been right all along.
As the German magazine Der Spiegel reports, the swine flu pandemic of 2009 may have been engineered by the drug companies:
In mid-May, about three weeks before the swine flu was declared a pandemic, 30 senior representatives of pharmaceutical companies met with WHO Director-General Chan and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at WHO headquarters.
The vaccine industry was mainly interested in one question: the decision to declare phase 6.
Phase 6 acted as a switch that would allow bells on the industry's cash registers to ring, risk-free, because many pandemic vaccine contracts had already been signed. Germany, for example, signed an agreement with the British firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2007 to buy its pandemic vaccine -- as soon as phase 6 was declared.
Many jumped on the pandemic bandwagon, but not everyone was fooled. As Spiegel Online reported, Polish health minister, physician Ewa Kopacz, saw through the scam and declined to buy swine flu vaccines for the country. She asked:
Is it my duty to sign agreements that are in the interest of Poles, or in the interest of the pharmaceutical companies?"
Sources:
Digital Journal March 14, 2010
Spiegel Online March 12, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
I remember very well when last year on June 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its swine flu pandemic alert from a 5 to a 6. Already by this time the swine flu virus was showing itself to have mild symptoms, quick recovery time, and low incidence of death among the vast majority of H1N1 patients throughout the world.
Yet all the drug companies needed to begin shipping out their profitable new H1N1 vaccine across the world was for the swine flu to be kicked up one notch, from a phase 5 to a phase 6 pandemic and that is exactly what they got.
How Did a Mild Flu Virus Get the Highest Warning Level Available?
Phase 6 is the highest warning level that indicates a pandemic capable of widespread human infection.
However, in reality, the word 'pandemic' only means that a new virus is spreading across the world. It says nothing about its level of physical danger, but that was not always the case.
WHO actually changed their definition of a pandemic just one month before raising the swine flu alert level.
As Spiegel Online reported:
On the WHO Web site, the answer to the question "What is a pandemic?" included mention of "an enormous number of deaths and cases of the disease" -- until May 4, 2009. That was when a CNN reporter pointed out the discrepancy between this description and the generally mild course of the swine flu. The language was promptly removed.
So the swine flu only became a pandemic because the WHO decided to change the definition in May last year to make it no longer necessary for an enormous amount of people to have contracted an illness or died before a pandemic could be called.
Instead, under the new definition, it doesnt matter how many, or how few, people are affected. All a disease has to do to be labeled a pandemic is move beyond a few countries borders.
So in mid-May 2009, just weeks before the swine flu was declared a pandemic, what do you think the 30 senior pharmaceutical company representatives wanted to discuss when they met with WHO Director-General Chan and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at WHO headquarters?
By changing the definition, nations were compelled to implement pandemic plans and to purchase H1N1 flu vaccines some already had existing contracts in place to do so! In the blink of an eye, this enabled drug companies to pocket billions of dollars on fast-tracked, untested vaccines.
Swine Flu Hysteria
In the beginning, even before it was declared a level 6 pandemic by WHO, a group of scientists were sounding the alarm that this might indeed be the terrifying, deadly pandemic they had been expecting for over half a century.
We were told that young, healthy people, pregnant women and small children were falling ill and quickly dying, and the virus was spreading rapidly. They even suggested it could mutate into an even more dangerous form that could kill countless numbers of people.
The drug companies, of course, also played a role in keeping up this mounting hysteria. According to Spiegel Online:
The pharmaceutical industry was particularly adept at keeping this vision alive. Manufacturers of flu remedies and vaccines even funded a group of scientists devoted solely to this issue: the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza, which regularly held conferences and meetings of experts.
The lobbying group was headed by Albert Osterhaus of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, who also happened to be one of the WHO's most influential advisors on influenza vaccines.
The Scam, Exposed
The scare phenomenon the scare machine the fear mongering that took hold of much of the world last year as government officials spread panic in the form of inaccurate swine flu statistics and worst-case scenarios turned out to be a major scam.
It started to come out in late 2009 when British and French media began saying the H1N1 pandemic had been "hyped" by medical researchers to further their own cause, boost research grants and line the pockets of drug companies.
Ontario health officials also declared H1N1 a dud pandemic, stating the huge government investment made so far may have been unjustified. And a study by researchers at Harvard University and the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit in the U.K. also found that the pandemic was never a cause for alarm.
After analyzing H1N1 deaths in the United States in the spring, then projecting outcomes for this past fall, they found the fu season should have been no different than a typical flu season -- and possibly even milder than average!
A Faked Pandemic!
On January 4, 14 members from 10 countries in the Council of Europe stunned the world by calling H1N1 a FAKED pandemic!
In a motion asking the council to investigate the declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic, these members accused pharmaceutical companies of faking the pandemic and farming it out to the world, so they could fill their pockets with the proceeds:
In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide.
They have made them squander tight health care resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.
The motion, spear-headed by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), goes on to say:
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 also to the credibility and accountability of important international health agencies. The definition of an alarming pandemic must not be under the influence of drug-sellers.
The member states of the Council of Europe should ask for immediate investigations on the consequences at national as well as European level.
In the United States, we should be doing the same thing, by demanding a call to action for complete, detailed accountings from the CDC, the FDA, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and all health agencies and academic researchers and scientists who have stakes in any drug that is mass-marketed.
At the very least, this swine flu fiasco will likely make many Americans think twice before standing in line for an experimental vaccine against a very mild disease.
As for how it will impact the workings of the public health agencies well, that remains to be seen. As it stands, as of April 9, 2010 the U.S. CDC is STILL recommending Americans get vaccinated for 2009 H1N1.
Outrageous, yes, but true nonetheless.