The experts involved in the World Health Organization decision to declare a flu pandemic rejected accusations of undue influence from drugmakers, and insisted that "meticulous care" was taken to avoid conflicts of interest and to keep a distance from industry as much as possible,Agence France-Presse writes.
David Salisbury, of the WHO's standing Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and a director of immunization at the UK's Department of Health, said candidates for the advisory body were vetted before they joined and those with conflicts of interest were excluded. "There has been no declaration of conflict from any SAGE member in our proceeding on A (H1N1) vaccine," he told a probe investigating the international response to the pandemic.
SAGE gave decisive technical advice to WHO Director General Margaret Chan last year on whether to produce a special H1N1 vaccine, production timing and vaccine needs. But parliamentarians conducting a Council of Europe probe criticized the transparency of the decision-process making during the pandemic and especially the potential influence of drugmakers on vaccination. Recently, several governments have tried to cancel orders of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of swiftly developed special pandemic vaccines after fears about the severity of swine flu died down.
Salisbury said pharmaceutical industry representatives were invited to take part in a SAGE consultations dealing with vaccine production capacity and development. "To my knowledge the industry has not done anything other than provide us with scientific information," he said. "There was at no time any attempt to influence the advice we gave, either in the timing or the content of the advice we gave."
Australian infectious disease expert John Mackenzie, head of the WHO's Emergency Committee of scientists, also defended their safeguards. "Certainly as the chair I was not approached by the pharmaceutical industry and I don't know of any member who was," he said. "I was the only person known externally so who could have been approached."
His body recommended an international emergency over the new flu virus and the declaration of a pandemic last June. Mackenzie said the secrecy surrounding the identities of the other members of his panel and their work was precisely aimed at protecting them from commercial or state pressure.
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Here’s an interesting Letter to the Editor of BMJ by Peter Doshi titled “More changing webpages at WHO” in response to an article by Rory Watson titled “WHO is accused of “Crying wolf” over swine flu pandemic”.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/apr06_2/c1904
The next worldwide “pandemic” flu campaign is already underway. Vaccine “madness” is the single most important healthcare issue we face today. We were perilously close to forced detentions, quarantines, and innocculations, during the last campaign.
Pharma and the WHO have learned some lessons. We may not be so lucky with the next campaign. Pharma's global vaccine agenda represents a direct and continuous assault upon our natural, God-given, immune systems.
Vaccines, coupled with public fear and hysteria over “pandemics”, STDs, “cancer”, and easily bought governmental and mainstream media support, essentially guarantee that we are in for a very rough ride.
The world could be nearing a “tipping point” with respect to vaccine “madness”. I pray for us all that the sleeper is finally starting to awaken...before its too late!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/health-fitness/health/Hib-vaccine-Are-press-releases-telling-whole-truth/articleshow/5810928.cms
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/17/major-vaccine-suspended-due-to-contamination-with-pig-virus.aspx
Why don’t we just “cut to the chase”? We have the ability to end this vaccine madness controversy once and for all. Let’s design an unblinded, prospective, active comparator study looking at two cohorts: a fully-vaccinated (per both pediatric and adult immunization schedules) cohort and a no-vaccination (natural immunity-only) cohort, measuring all health outcomes. Let the chips fall where they may. We can handle the truth...can’t we?
“On March 22, 2010, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials adhering to the precautionary principle advised American doctors to suspend use of Rotarix 1 vaccine until the agency finds out why DNA from a swine virus (porcine circovirus 1 or PCV1) was found in the live rotavirus vaccine.”
http://info-wars.org/2010/04/09/vaccine-contamination-pig-virus-dna-found-in-rotarix/
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/April-2010/Vaccine-Contamination-Pig-Virus-DNA-Found-in-Rota.aspx#_edn13
Let’s try to put this information into perspective. Is this the first time in history that such a contamination of vaccines with uncertain biologic recombinants has occurred? No! Most definitely not. Will it be the last time such a contamination of vaccines takes place? Probably not. There are literally hundreds of "innovative" new vaccines in the pipeline.
Is the multi-vaccinated public at risk of becoming human-animal chimeras, or worse? I don’t know, but I believe that it warrants serious public discussion. The risk of uncertain biologic recombinants in vaccines has already been raised. Is anyone listening?
“The truth that vaccine policy is not about science or safety but about money and politics is finally seeing the light of day.” – K. Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM, on January 13th, 2009.
“The history of vaccine in littered with horrible mistakes and skulduggery – from the SV40 virus given to millions in the polio vaccine to the continued use of mercury and other heavy metals. The fact is even the best MMR vaccine is contaminated with avian retro virus and reverse transcriptase. This is criminal!” – K. Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM, on January 13th, 2009.
“Having read the history of all vaccines, this does not surprise me at all. The first smallpox vaccine was never shown to decrease smallpox incidence or deaths and hundreds of people were injured by the vaccine. Yet this nonsense has gone on now for over 150 years. When are people going to realise that injecting a toxic brew straight into a child’s bloodstream is voodoo medicine. The wonder is that so many children survive.” – Jennifer Craig, Ph.D, on January 16th, 2009.
“Most people assume that a vaccine is composed of selected viruses in a sterile fluid to which preservatives have been added. Not so.
Vaccines are suspensions derived from the manufacturere’s ‘incubation tanks’ in which the viruses are produced from substrates of mashed bird embryo, minced monkey kidneys or cloned human cells. These suspensions are filtered before use but only to remove particles larger than viruses. The point of the vaccine is that it contains viruses, so these must not be filtered out. Therefore, anything smaller than a virus remains.
These remains include what the manufacturers call ‘degradation products’ – parts of decayed viruses or cells, unknown bits and pieces, foreign protein particles, viral oncogenes (might cause cancer), added chemicals and DNA fragments.
How to remove contaminating DNA has caused some concern to the Authorities, which is comforting. In 1986, the US government recommended a weight limit of 100 picograms of contaminating DNA per vaccine dose. However, this has proved so impossible a standard to achieve that they now allow one hundred times that amount, i.e. 10 nanograms per vaccine dose.
In other words, the vaccines we inject into our children are liquids filled with unknown particles, most of which come from cells of non-humans: from chickens, monkeys, and even from cancer cells. Plus the DNA of other species. No wonder so many of them are chronically sick.” – Jennifer Craig, Ph.D, on March 11th, 2009.
How certain are we that the last “pandemic”, specifically the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, was not one that came out of a vaccine lab?
Barbara Loe Fisher, in her post of April 7, 2010, titled “Vaccine Contamination: Pig Virus DNA Found in Rotarix” at the nciv.org website, expressed concerns which I happen to share, which I will take the liberty of excerpting in relevant part, here: “The contamination of Rotarix vaccine is only the latest in a long history of vaccine contamination issues that require a re-examination of the way vaccines are made and tested. It is a wake-up call for industry and government
The big question people are asking is: why do drug companies making vaccines continue to use cells from animals, birds and insects that can be contaminated with viruses and other adventitious agents that are hard to detect?
The FDA was right to suspend use of Rotarix vaccine until they know more. Hopefully, this serious vaccine production and testing issue will be addressed immediately by vaccine manufacturers. If not, the next pandemic or serious health problem affecting large populations may be one that comes out of a vaccine lab.”
Yikes, a typo: www.nvic.org where nvic is the National Vaccine Information Center.
Getting back to the point of Ed’s post, and for those who may not have been following this topic, an article by F. William Engdahl on December 8, 2009, titled, “WHO ‘Swine Flu Pope’ under investigation for gross conflict of interest” is an interesting read.
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Swine_Flu/Flu_Pope/flu_pope.html
See also an article by Louise Voller & Kristian Villesen on December 17, 2009, titled “WHO Adviser Conceals a Donation of Millions from a Pharmaceutical Company”
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/who_adviser.html
http://www.rokotusinfo.fi/yhd/kirjeenvaihtoa/who_0912_html
http://www.rokotusinfo.fi/en/memo_100119_html
See also an article by Bruno Odent on January 11, 2010, titled “Swine flu: “They Organized the Panic”. Inquiry into the Role of Big Pharma and WHO by Council of Europe”. http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=16902
http://beyondthecurtain.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/swine-flu-they-organized-the-panic-inquiry-into-the-role-of-big-pharma-and-who-by-council-of-europe/
An interview on February 4, 2010, of Dr Wolfgang Wodarg by Alex Jones
http://www.infowars.com/dr-wolfgang-wodarg-on-alex-jones-tv-whos-2009-swine-flu-threat-now-exposed-as-a-hoax/
The text of the public hearing on handling of H1N1 pandemic during a parliamentary hearing on January 26, 2010.
http://www.wodarg.de/english/3069477.html
http://www.wodarg.de/english/index.html
See also an ISIS article on January 27, 2010, by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho titled “Swine Flu a “Faked Pandemic”
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluaFakedPandemic.php
Our horses are already “home-free” so to speak, courtesy of Intervet/Shering-Plough Animal Health!
http://www.prevenile.com/chimera.asp
“PreveNile is a vaccine like no other. It uses cutting-edge chimera technology to generate a powerful immune response in your horse.”
“PreveNile is the first and only equine vaccine that uses chimera technology. The combination of two things like wings of a bird and the body of a horse - is a visual definition of chimera.”
“It’s important to note that both components of the WN-YF chimera vaccine have been modified so they cannot produce the actual disease.”
Wow! I wonder if the horse gets to sign an informed consent. It sort of begs the question: how does a horse survive a chimeric (xenomorph) close encounter? The most well-informed horses might wish to “Run like hell”.
Here’s the link to a series of video clips titled
“Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer. AIDS/HIV/Virus Information.”
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message470057/pg1
Sort of puts a different light on vaccine “madness”, doesn’t it?
Here are two links to some important information as to the WHO and the H1N1 pandemic of 2009. I wonder what 2010 has in store for the world?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25001788/Angl-350s-a-Reflection-and-a-Proposal-in-Relation-to-the-New-Influenza
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25001777/Cacheof-PDF-English-Transcript-Bell-Tolling-for-Swine-Flu