But don't 1000s of people die of flu every year?
Here's a couple of articles from WDDTY (you won't be able to read the whole article unless subscribed)
WHO officials 'in pay of drugs industry' during swine flu alert
09 June 2010
As WDDTY revealed to subscribers of its journal last month, several officials at the World Health Organization were in the pay of leading drug companies when last year?s swine flu scare was declared an epidemic. The moment the WHO increased the threat level to phase 6, or epidemic, multi-billion contracts that drug companies had set up with health agencies around the world were automatically triggered. Today, drug companies that offered anti-virals are counting the pennies. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) recently announced a surge in first-quarter revenues of 17 per cent because of £698m ($1bn) of sales of its Pandemrix swine-flu shots. The European Parliament and an independent team are separately investigating the WHO?s role so-called epidemic ? and especially its connections to the drugs industry. As WDDTY has revealed, several drug companies were sponsoring influential WHO committees that were advising on the spread of the swine flu (H1N1) virus, and several WHO advisors have admitted they were receiving payments from drug firms. (Source: WDDTY. 2010; vol 21, no 3 (June): 7-8; BMJ, 2010; 340: c2912).
Swine flu pandemic scare 'one of greatest medical scandals of century', says EU chief
03 February 2010
The swine flu pandemic scare was one of the greatest medical scandals of the century, and was engineered to increase the profits of the drug companies, says the health chief in the European Council. The council is to begin an investigation into the role of the drug companies, and how they influence ?independent? authorities such as the World Health Organization, after they passed a resolution from Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the Council?s health committee. Dr Wodarg, who is an epidemiologist and former health director in Germany, has followed the swine flu (H1N1 virus) pandemic story unfold. ?It is one of the greatest health scandals of the century,? he says. ?We have had a mild flu ? and a false pandemic.? The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a pandemic last year, and health authorities around the world ordered in large stocks of vaccines. In the UK, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson predicted 65,000 deaths in the UK, and convinced the government to place a £1bn order for swine flu vaccine. In the event, 251 people in the UK have died from the virus, and the government is now desperately trying to offload vast stocks of the vaccine. Wodarg claims that governments have sealed contracts with drug companies that are triggered when a virus is classified as pandemic. ?In this way the producers of vaccines are sure of enormous gains without having any financial risks. So they just wait until the WHO says ?pandemic? and activates the contracts.? (Source: www.wodarg.de/english/3013320.html)