From today's Daily Mail:
The swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed.
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic.
This led to the pharmaceutical firms ensuring 'enormous gains', while countries, including the UK, 'squandered' their meagre health budgets, with millions being vaccinated against a relatively mild disease.
A resolution proposed by Dr Wodarg calling for an investigation into the role of drug firms has been passed by the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based 'senate' responsible for the European Court of Human Rights.
An emergency debate on the issue will be held later this month.
Dr Wodarg's claims come as it emerged the British government is desperately trying to offload up to £1billion of swine flu vaccine, ordered at the height of the scare.
Last year, the Daily Mail revealed that Sir Roy Anderson, a scientist who advises the Government on swine flu, also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline.
GSK makes anti-flu drugs and vaccines and is predicted to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic.
Big Pharma hyping up the dangers of swine flu in order to increase profits? Who'd ever have thought it!
1 comment:
I don't normally go in for large-scale conspiracy theories but i've had my suspicions about this swine flu hullaballoo right from the start.
It is obvious that the drug companies, governments and the media have blown this out of all proportion.
Whether or not the illness itself is man-made or not, who knows?
If i'm not mistaken, doesn't a certain Mr. Rumsfeld sit on the board of the maker of Tamiflu, now an extremely recognisable and lucrative brand name?
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