Tuesday, January 5, 2010

The ‘false’ pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims Euro health chief

By Fiona Macrae

The swine flu outbreak was a ‘false pandemic’ driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation’s decision to declare a pandemic.