Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD member of parliament, and chairman of the European parliament’s health committee, initiated the inquiry. The motion was passed unanimously by his colleagues in the European parliament‘s health committee.

"... Health threat from counterfeit pandemic - is the motto of Europe in January dealing with the influence of the pharmaceutical industry to the global campaign against avian and swine influenza. It provides for an emergency debate in the Parliamentary Assembly and a committee of inquiry.

Back in September, Dr. Wodarg advised Germans not to get vaccinated ....

"I recommend this as a physician and health policy maker from a deep concern about the possible side effects of vaccines available in Germany that are marketed without any problems and are only for profit".

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg
http://www.wodarg.de/english/2948146.html

In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.

The "birds-flu"-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu"-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies.

The Council of Europe and its member-states should ask for immediate investigations and consequences on their national levels as well as on the international level. The definition of an alarming pandemic must not be under the influence of drug-sellers.

When in April 2009 some hundred normal influenza cases in Mexico City were rashly announced to be the beginning of a threatening new pandemic, there was little scientific evidence for this judgement. Nevertheless a large and immediate word-wide agenda setting process started and was eagerly spread by alarmist media and formally legitimized by pandemic-defining WHO, the agency, which is our global epidemiological watchdog and task-force.

Besides this, vaccination programs against influenza are already established in most of the exposed countries as an annual routine. They are regularly taking into account all expected varieties of flu-viruses to bundle their antigen fragments in a well-adjusted polyvalent vaccine.

But around the Mexican outbreak, WHO in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm-threshold. Those new standards forced politicians in most states to react immediately and sign marketing commitments for additional and new vaccines against "swine-flu" and spend billions of dollars to catch up with the alarming scenario that Big Pharma, media and WHO were spreading.

From the beginning in April 2009 it was clear, that a newly combined flu-virus was on its way - as many flu-virus-variations have been almost every year before. From the first cases in Mexico it was also evident, that this new subtype was doing less harm to infected humans than others in former years. Nevertheless the "swine-flu-campaign" was increasingly threatening people, filling television programs, newspapers, health-agendas, ambulances and hospitals.

Never before the search for traces of a virus was carried out so broadly and intensively. Besides, many cases of death, that happened to coincide with seropositive H1N1 lab-findings, were simply attributed to "swine-flu" and used to foster fear.

Additionally it has been proven, that at least one third of the population older than 60 had already positive test results because of flu contacts in the second half of the last century. In contrast to this "agenda setting process" it has to be stated, that the annual worldwide spreading ("pandemic") of 2009- influenza was a relief for global health, compared with the suffering, influenza waves used to originate most of the years before.

The Australian flu-season, which has already passed by with the Australian winter, has even given evidence, that the infection with "swine-flu" brings some protection against other, more dangerous virus-types. Nevertheless we have to observe, that a faked "swine-flu"- pandemic is still used for marketing risky vaccines.

The victims among millions of needlessly vaccinated people must be protected by their states and independent scientific clarification should provide evidence and transparency for national and -if necessary- European courts.

Tabled by:
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg (Soc. Germany)

(already signed and supported by a sufficient number of members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)

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Tagesspiegel.de
Berlin - It provides for an emergency debate in the Parliamentary Assembly and a committee of inquiry.
It was initiated both by the former German Bundestag Wolfgang Wodarg (SPD), in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe still in office as head of the subcommittee on health. Wodarg is a physician and epidemiologist, he considers the handling of the swine flu to be "one of the biggest medical scandals of the century". In his committee unanimously adopted a resolution criticizing the influence of scientists and pharmaceutical authorities by enterprising entrepreneurs. This had resulted in "millions of healthy people were unnecessarily exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines were" - for an infectious disease that "is considerably more harmless" than any flu outbreaks in previous years and "not even one tenth of this normal deaths" have caused.
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http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/international/Schweinegrippe-Europara...

ZeitOnline
The Flu Mess
SPD politician Wolfgang Wodarg considers the measures against H1N1 for "one of the biggest medical scandals of the century" and makes the swine flu on the Council of Europe.

Health threat from counterfeit pandemic - is the motto of the Council of Europe in January dealing with the influence of the pharmaceutical industry to the global campaign against avian and swine influenza. It provides for an emergency debate in the Parliamentary Assembly and a committee of inquiry.

Read more:
http://www.zeit.de/politik/2009-12/schweinegrippe-europa