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Swine flu: a major worldwide fraud?
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After making the whole world panic into getting vaccination for the new deathly pest of the 21st century, now people start to think that, behind all this, there's nothing but money. Some people has certainly got immensely rich with all this fuss, and it's probably not you or me.
The swine flu (or "A" flu, as it is officially called in the EU) has proved to be nothing but a normal flu, just as bad as any other. Now all eyes are turning to the WHO (World Health Organization) for explanations. Were they fooled into thinking the danger was real? Was it corruption from the inside? Was it simply a case of incompetence?
Whatever the answer may be, it's a very serious problem for one of the most important UN organizations in the world.
(NOTE: Swine is an old word for pig, and flu is short for influenza, a kind of very strong cold)
The Council of Europe is set to decide whether the World Health Organization colluded with drug companies to exaggerate the threat from swine flu.
The WHO declared the disease a "pandemic", allegedly after advice from doctors with close links to pharmaceutical companies.
The Council is looking into whether the threat was blown out of proportion. An estimated US$18 billion was spent worldwide on vaccinations and drugs to fight the flu.
The German doctor behind the accusation says this has been one of the greatest medical scams of the century. An expert from the Russian Academy of Sciences says the H1N1 flu is a non-disease.
“The recent flu has been described as a made-up disease or a non-disease. In other words, the main goal of everything surrounding it is to make money. SARS, bird flu and chronic fatigue are all in that category, along with nearly 200 other illnesses. One can make up anything – a goat flu or a fish flu. And we are easily convinced about the threat of infections. One such example is what happened after the Chernobyl catastrophe, when people were persuaded to buy devices to measure radioactivity. So a disease doesn’t even have to be infectious for companies to make money from the panic.”
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