Swine Flu Hysteria Overblown
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Scientist Professor Ulrich Keil, director of the WHO’s Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology, testified this week before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that the WHO and WHO’s flu chief, Dr Keiji Fukuda created “angst campaigns,” geared towards boosting the profits of the pharmaceutical companies.
According to Keil and other critics, WHO has greatly exaggerated the worldwide impact of the Swine flu or H1N1 influenza, much to the delight of the shareholders of the vaccine makers, such as GlaxoSmithKine whose second quarter profits of 2009 were a stunning 12 times greater than the previous year.
The current total world wide deaths from H1N1 are slightly over 14,000. According to the WHO website, the annual deaths caused by the seasonal flu worldwide is between 250,000-500,000.
That means the actual number of deaths was only about 6% relative to the amount of people who die from the regular seasonal flu each year. That isn’t even 1 out of 10. Based on the media hysteria you would have thought it was ten times GREATER of a threat than the seasonal flu. Here are links to some stories from USA Today and CNN that helped add to the hysteria.
The more serious threat is the damage done to the reputation of the WHO, the health organization that “cried wolf” and could reduce the impact of future threats that turn out to be legitimate.
Related Links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/niko-kyriakou/swine-flu-didnt-fly_b_438783.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-scientist-swine-flu-pandemic-was-completely-exaggerated.html
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Posted on 01/29/2010 02:04 pm