Swine Flu: The WHO Plays with Pandemic Fire

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Existing areas of concern:1. The regular flu vaccine is being shunned by people worldwide leading to huge stockpiles2. Tamiflu is a virtual no seller as far as retail is concerned3. The Indian swine flu vaccine manufacturer has asked for and has been promised a "steady market"4. There is concrete evidence that "swine flu like symptoms" can be a vaccine adverse effect.And now more politics emerges:The WHO Plays with Pandemic Fire

The Continuing Saga of the Flying Pigs Pandemic Flu

By F. William Engdahl

 

 

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va & aid=13856

 

 

Global Research, June 5, 2009

 

 

 

According to information from within the World Health

Organization in Geneva, the UN organization supposedly monitoring

global health dangers, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan plans to

declare a Phase 6 Official Pandemic Alert in the coming days. This

bizarre act if declared would come at a time that the country which had

to date reported far the latest number of suspected H1N1 cases, the

USA, has simply arbitrarily stopped reporting new cases.

If you consider to let your family get scared

into taking drugs like Tamiflu that not only do not prevent or even

ameliorate symptoms of flu, but in some cases are so toxic they cause

severe paralysis, breathing problems and even death, you should at

least know the facts before.

The report that WHO may declare an official

Pandemic global alert any time is all the more bizarre given the fact

that the global wave of cases reported to date to WHO from around the

world reportedly have been so mild as to be indistinguishable from the

symptoms of ordinary flu.

And the relatively small number of deaths alleged

tied to swine flu as it originally was named, appear in no way

definitely tied to to H1N1 causes. In a May 28 CDC press briefing, the

CDC reported, ‘When we look at our deaths, we have information on 11 of

the 12 deaths that have been reported to us so far. And it appears

that 10 of those fatalities occurred in people who had an underlying

condition that put them at greater risk for severe complications of

influenza.' That is what epidemiologists call correlation not

causality or ‘opportunistic infection' deaths.

European epidemiologists privately believe that

there is no proven link between supposed H1N1 Influenza A illness and

the deaths, rather that the deaths are ‘coincidence' or what health

professionals term ‘opportunistic infections.' The CDC report would

seem to strengthen that argument.

US CDC stops regular reporting?

Even more bizarre for a supposed pandemic ‘threat

to all mankind' the official monitoring agency in the nation with so

far the largest number of reported case counts, which notably include

‘probable' ad well as ‘confirmed' H1N1 cases, namely the United States,

the CDC announced en passant, on that May 28 press briefing that,

‘beginning next week, we're going to shift to a different schedule.

We'll be updating our case count information less frequently.' That

statement came from Dr. Anne Schuchat, Deputy Director for Science and

Public Health Program of the US Centers for Disease Control. She

declined to say what ‘less frequently' was or even why such a decision

was reached at the same time the US Government is dedicating billion

dollars fast track funds to drug makers to produce H1N1 vaccines.

Oops! Wait a minute. I thought we were teetering

on the edge of declaring a global Pandemic Emergency, Phase 6 where

travel restrictions, mandatory quarantine and other extreme steps would

be implemented. Then the responsible national agency in the country

with something like 67% of all reported cases of H1N1 Swine Flu decided

casually not to report so often?

Another anomaly in the increasingly bizarre

situation is the release of new WHO Pandemic guidelines on April 20,

2009, conveniently enough just in time to affect the current world

pandemic scare. According to a WHO official responsible for the report,

the revision of revised 2005 WHO Pandemic guidelines was begun ‘well

before the Mexican flu cases were first reported.' The official spoke

off record.

Even more curious is the fact that the latest

April 2009 WHO Pandemic response guidelines prescribe the exact same

response for Phase 5 (sub-pandemic) and Phase 6 (so-called Pandemic),

namely ‘implement actions as called for in their national plans.' For

that we need WHO?

Drug giants gearing up

The situation is becoming a golden harvest for

the giant pharmaceutical makers as they receive samples from the CDC to

begin producing possible vaccines as well as so-called antiviral drugs

like Tamiflu.

The US government recently made available one

billion dollars to help big vaccine makers like Sanofi-Aventis and

GlaxoSmithKline ready production of new vaccines. Novartis leads the

herd with $289 million in federal support, followed by Sanofi Aventis

with $191 million and GlaxoSmithKline, which gets $181 million. In

addition the US Government had decided to ‘de-risk' the vaccine

production, presumably removing usual safeguards for new vaccines. The

US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) is placing orders with

manufacturers with which it already has contracts to produce a pandemic

vaccine for the never-pandemic H5N1 avian flu. More than $3 billion in

federal funds since 2005 have gone toward developing, building

manufacturing and stockpiling a vaccine to fight that disease. How long

do such vaccines hold in stock?

Fittingly given the bizarre nature of the entire

Flying Pigs panic being spread by WHO and CDC, the CDC reports that it

expects the first H1N1 approved vaccines to be ready by Halloween.

Trick or Treat?

In Australia the government has ordered 10

million doses of a new vaccine being developed by CSL. CSL plans to

start producing a new vaccine in the next days that can be used for

human testing. A vaccine based on the California strain of the virus is

being tested in ferrets. China says that it will have samples of swine

flu on hand by June and plans to start manufacturing a new A/H1N1

vaccine in July.

Many drugmakers are using techniques of genetic

manipulation to produce their new vaccine offerings in a race to

market. The Maryland drugmaker Novavax which reported severe annual

income losses prior to the current Swine Flu scare, now is preparing a

genetically modified vaccine they claim is suitable for H1N1 flu.

The 1976 Swine Flu fiasco

Once WHO declares a Phase 6 Pandemic Alert, all

hell could break loose with governments and population going into

panic, cancellation of international travel, severe domestic travel

restrictions and other emergency measures resembling martial law.

In 1976 President Gerald Ford issued an Executive

Order calling for every man woman and child in the USA to be vaccinated

against a suspected outbreak of swine Flu at the Fort Dix US military

base. Within months more than forty million unknowing Americans had

been vaccinated, some 20% of the then total population despite the fact

that no pandemic ever appeared. The flu was restricted to Fort Dix.

Interestingly, aside from severe weather and

crowded barrack conditions at Fort Dix, every recruit coming in had

immediately been given multiple vaccinations as routine, similar to

what US soldiers are given today before being shipped to Iraq or

Afghanistan, or similar to what US and European soldiers were given in

1918 during the spread of the misnamed Spanish Influenza of 1918. Was

the Fort Dix wave of illnesses and one death a consequence of the

vaccinations? We may never know as no government agency was interested

in pursuing the notion.

In that 1976 US swine flu panic, aided by a

nervous President eager to win re-election, there were thirty deaths

due to adverse vaccine reactions and dozens if not hundreds of cases of

the rare Guillain-Barre syndrome which led to halting of a national

vaccination that was being given for a non-existent pandemic.

Free from liability?

There was one very significant difference between

1976 and today however. In 1976 US insurance companies refused to

insure vaccine manufacturers against lawsuits for vaccine-related

illnesses or deaths. Today drugmakers need have little fear of damages

from product liability lawsuits. They can unleash whatever substances

the FDA lets them, and indications are that under Pandemic declaration

safety standards would be dropped in the rush to stab the population as

widely as possible with vaccines.

Under rulings made under the Bush Administration,

vaccines can be labelled as “unavoidably unsafe†meaning that when a

product is ‘carefully designed, manufactured and marketed, but is

dangerous nonetheless,' it is not a defective product, even though it

might cause injury. Clear? It certainly is clear to the pharmaceutical

industry which lobbied hard for the determination.

A decisive victory for the drug industry came in

January 2006 when Bush Administration Health and Human Services

Secretary Michael Leavitt announced a new ruling in defiance of

established precedent and the expressed intent of Congress. The new FDA

rules pre-empted any state laws that allow citizens to sue drugmakers

for producing unsafe drugs under the dubious claim that the FDA, an

agency under HHS, had national responsibility for certification of drug

safety and state lawsuits impinged on that national responsibility. As

several Congressmen at the time pointed out the FDA track record for

timely response to clear drug dangers as in the Vioxx cases was hardly

to the benefit of the health and welfare of citizens suffering needless

heart attacks and death as a side effect of the drug.

It would be relevant to ask if the Democratic

Congress that protested the 2006 FDA liability-free ruling has plans to

change that free ride for vaccine makers. That might do more than

anything to reduce the effects of Swine Flu. Then people might realize

where the real swine danger lies.F. William Engdahl

is author of the just-released book Full Spectrum Dominance:

Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. He may be reached

through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.netThese (scientific) studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food consumption including infertility, immune dysregulation, accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis,insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system. Because GM foods pose a serious health risk, the AAEM believes that it is imperative to adopt the precautionary principle. - American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

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