Sometimes Truth is 'Relative': -----------------------------------
Under here an article from a left leaning Danish paper - back in 2009.
Already then suspicious of the direction UN and WHO took: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Article from 'Information' (Danish paper) Translated from Danish with Google.
November 16, 2009 Omar Torres
Mysterious change to WHO's definition of a pandemic The WHO has suddenly changed the definition of a pandemic on its website. Now, virtually all influenza can be called pandemics, critics believe. In this way, the pharmaceutical industry will continue to be able to earn billions on vaccines for relatively harmless diseases A Mexican child is being checked for influenza A in a hospital in Mexico City in May. Two months before, the first case of swine flu had been discovered in Mexico. A Mexican child is being checked for influenza A in a hospital in Mexico City in May. Two months before, the first case of swine flu had been discovered in Mexico.
The definition of a pandemic has changed on the WHO website. In May, a flu was required to cause a "huge number of dead or sick" before it could be described as a pandemic. But that is no longer part of the definition. Today, these lines have been cut out and it is questionable, several researchers believe:
"The WHO predicted swine flu in 2005, but it wasn't until they changed the definition of a pandemic in 2009 that they got right," says epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, who has worked in Rome for the independent research institute, Cochrane, for 15 years.
He finds it strange that precisely those lines have been cut out because swine flu has so far only cost 6,071 people life, in contrast to the regular flu which, according to WHO, costs up to 500,000 people each year.
"We need to know why the definition was changed? Who changed it and when? In my opinion, it should all be investigated by an independent guard, 'says Tom Jefferson.
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Peter Doshi, recently criticized the definition change in an analysis in the British Medical Journal, British Medical Journal:
"Since H1N1 occurred, the description of the causes and consequences of a pandemic has changed to an extent where the difference between common flu and pandemic flu is uncertain," his criticism reads.
Must follow WHO Former specialist in occupational and social medicine, among others. Aarhus University, Mauri Johansson, agrees:
“The concept is watered down. Many influenza will in future be considered pandemic, and the decision lies solely with the WHO, 'says Mauri Johansson, pointing to the consequences:
»All member countries are obliged to follow the WHO recommendations - in Denmark we are also obliged to buy vaccines against the flu, because like many other countries we have made a contract with a company and it will be triggered if the WHO declares a pandemic. «
Information today describes how several WHO experts have been paid by the pharmaceutical industry - and how the decision to make H1N1 a pandemic has triggered vaccine orders from the pharmaceutical industry for up to £ 55 billion.
The new definition should lead to a change in emergency preparedness, Peter Doshi believes: "I do not think it makes any sense to have a pandemic emergency designed for an emergency if the disease that triggers emergency preparedness is no more serious than the average annual disease level. Calling something a pandemic causes serious public health reactions, which in turn have serious social, political and economic consequences, ”says Peter Doshi.
Research leader Peter A Gross of Hackensack University Medical Center agrees that WHO's changed definition is problematic:
"In the future, it would dress WHO to be clearer in their definition of an influenza pandemic. It is unclear whether mortality will increase as a result of H1N1, but whatever it will stress the health care system, "points out Peter A. Gross.
WHO At WHO, spokesman for H1N1's global emergency preparedness, Gregory Härtl, does not believe there are problems with the definition of an epidemic:
- Why is 'huge numbers of dead and sick' no longer part of WHO's definition of a pandemic?
»The wording has been used since 2004 when it was posted on a website. But it has never been the official definition. Instead, look at The Pandemic Preparedness Guidance '.
- The definition is on the WHO website under the heading: What is an influenza pandemic? But that's not a definition?
“I know you would think the website is official, but it is not. The phrase 'huge numbers of dead and ill people' has never been in The Pandemic Preparedness Guidance '.
It has not been possible to find out exactly when the change to the definition of the WHO website was implemented.
