WHO Statement Answers To “Fake” Swine Flu Pandemic Accusations

The World Health Organization in Geneva answered to critics on Monday who are accusing WHO of creating a fake pandemic situation for the benefit of drug companies who made billions off of vaccine production worldwide. The U.N. Health organization said that the accusations are “irresponsible” because the the outbreak of H1N1 in North America last year had all the scientific characteristics of a pandemic, and that they were not in any way influenced by the pharmaceutical industry.

“The world is going through a real pandemic. The description of it as a fake is wrong and irresponsible,” said the statement released Monday by WHO.

A WHO spokesman passed on saying specifically to whom the statement was aimed, saying only that “this applies to anyone who believes it is not a real pandemic.” In the statement, WHO shares that it has several safeguards to prevent any conflicts of interest among the advisory councils, including detailed professional and financial interest profiling and sworn signed statements. “WHO takes allegations of conflict of interest seriously and is confident of its decision-making independence regarding the pandemic influenza,” said WHO.

According to a WHO tally dated Jan. 17, more than 209 countries and territories have reported laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu, including at least 14,142 deaths.

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said the relatively low number of confirmed deaths from swine flu didn’t mean the virus wasn’t a pandemic.

“A pandemic has nothing to do with severity or number of deaths,” he told The Associated Press. “A pandemic literally is a global spread of a disease.”

He said WHO was “always very measured and sober in what we said and we always described the virus as causing overwhelmingly mild disease. “We cannot control how people react to this information,” he added.

Since the H1N1 strain proved to be very mild in symptoms and resulted in fewer deaths than the normals strains of flu yearly, critics have been accusing WHO of prematurely jumping to “pandemic” status to the benefit of drug companies worldwide.

A few months ago, nanotransformation uncovered transcripts from a U.N. meeting of Swine Flu Experts Discussing the vaccine, and how to get more people to take the vaccine:

So is the WHO telling us the truth?  We say: You decide, remember always do your research, don’t blindly believe either side of arguments related to your health, but empower yourself to research, get the facts and make decisions based on what you know, not on what you hear.

References for more information:

Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research

CBS News: WHO Slams H1N1 Critics as “Irresponsible”