From PharmaTech comes the following paragraph, which implies that once a pandemic is identified, the WHO’s Pandemic Plan goes into effect. An evaluation of severity is missing from this scenario. Somehow, the assumption seems to be that pandemics (all pandemics, especially those associated with influenza viruses) are dire events with high mortality rates. Yet the…
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has rejected as “irresponsible” allegations that swine flu is a fake pandemic. WHO also dismissed claims it colluded with drug companies to bring economic benefit to the industry by playing up the danger of the new H1N1 influenza strain. WHO officials met Tuesday with the Parliamentary Assembly of…
CDC called a few thousand random phone numbers and asked people whether they had been vaccinated. CDC said the response rate was poor. From this admittedly poor quality dataset, CDC told the world that 20% of Americans had been vaccinated against swine flu. But CDC had a high quality dataset telling it exactly how many…
From Niko Kyriakou at Truthout, excerpts: Wow, what a year 2009 was for makers of the swine flu vaccine. CSL Limited‘s profits rose 63 percent above 2008 levels, while in the third quarter of 2009 – just about the time H1N1 contracts picked up steam – GlaxoSmithKine enjoyed a 30 percent jump in earnings to…
The Jan. 24 WSJ ran an Op-Ed on the anthrax letters investigation and meaning of 1.4% silicon in the letter anthrax, by Edward Jay Epstein. Subtitled “The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized,” excerpts from the article follow: The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the…
The Chilcot Inquiry into the facts surrounding the decision for Great Briitain to enter the Iraq War has now been lobbed a ball it probably can’t duck. A group of physicians have asked for release of data–including autopsy reports–on the death of David Kelly. Kelly, a WMD expert, told the BBC that Blair’s government had…
ZURICH (from Jan. 20, 2010: Reuters) – Switzerland’s medical regulator recommended patients with seriousautoimmune diseases should not use an H1N1 flu vaccine fromNovartis, saying there were no studies assessing the innoculation in thatpopulation. Swissmedic said on Wednesday it could not be ruled out that either or boththe adjuvant — which can enhance the immune response…
Snippets from Deutsche World online: Amid criticism that it exaggerated the dangers of swine flu, the World Health Organization (WHO) has begun a week long meeting in Geneva. Critics accuse the organization of having been too quick to proclaim a pandemic. British member of parliament Paul Flynn wants an investigation into exactly how the pandemic…
From the NY Times, Sept. 21, 2005 – Just as governments around the world are stockpiling millions of doses of flu vaccine and antiviral drugs in anticipation of a potential influenza pandemic, two new research papers published today have found that such treatments are far less effective than previously thought. “The studies published today reinforce…
The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) calls for an investigation ofconflicts of interest at Federal Agencies which spearheaded the excessive,expensive, and unjustifiable federal expenditure in response to the false SwineFlu “pandemic” in the U.S. Indeed, “off the record”, CDC even stage-managed media coverage of the epidemic. Issues requiring investigation: 1. BARDA (the Biomedical Advanced…
WHO’s Strategic Group of Experts Working Group on Avian Flu (H5N1) Vaccine is working on “evidence-based recommendations” for using up stockpiles of avian flu vaccine that are reaching their expiration date. From WHO’s website: “Facilitate a SAGE review and decision on potential evidence-based recommendations on the use during the current inter-pandemic period of: H5N1 influenza…
CDC does not just award grants, it also obtains research grants from other federal agencies and industry. Here is one grant CDC got from an Australian biotech company to advance research on the company’s pandemic flu vaccine. How might such relationships affect CDC’s impartiality in fulfilling its mission to recommend vaccines for general use in…
Real data is important, and anecdotes are just anecdotal. Yet during the past 3 weeks I have been personally involved with 3 events that have me concerned. I am a doctor on an island of 13,000 people, where hundreds received swine flu vaccine. Coincidence 1: several hours after getting the swine flu vaccine, a man…
The BBC today notes that: The Council of Europe is planning an investigation, to begin later this month, into whether pharmaceutical companies influenced public health officials to spend money unnecessarily. In Geneva, a WHO spokeswoman acknowledged there were questions to be answered. She said the review of its management of the pandemic would be conducted…
Let’s draw a stupid line in the sand. Let’s fire employees who refuse a seasonal flu vaccine made up of antigens for 3 strains of flu that do not happen to be circulating in the US right now, and may never circulate. Check out the CDC’s graph detailing the flu strains found in the US…
I told readers in November that I would be discussing the expanding vaccine industry at more length. Fortunately, the media have obliged with excellent articles explaining the financial forces driving development of increasing types and numbers of vaccines. Articles like the one below also hint at why physicians are being pressured to vaccinate more and…
From SwissInfo: … Western European countries, including Switzerland, are queuing up to shift surplus stocks of the H1N1 flu vaccine after low public demand. … Sales of H1N1 vaccines have been a windfall for pharmaceutical companies. GSK is expected to be the single biggest beneficiary with anticipated sales of SFr3.7 billion by the end of…
From the famous Pharmalot blog by Ed Silverman (formerly a reporter at the Newark Star Ledger): That’s the contention by more than a dozen members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which reportedly plans to conduct an inquiry into the influence that drugmakers may have had on the World Health Organization, scientists…
from the BBC: Germany and The Netherlands announced similar sales late last year… The government bought 94 million swine flu vaccine doses – more than one for every French person – and started vaccinating in October. Only about five million people are recorded as having been vaccinated in France so far, AFP reports…
The map I previously posted disappeared off this website. However, WHO updates the map weekly. To see the current week’s map (and you may click to compare it with previous weeks) please go to the WHO site.
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