Comments on: Pandemic – When did the definition change?

By: MinorityView

MinorityView — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:10:20 +0000

http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/who-set-to-declare-end-of-flu-pandemic-news-496102

WHO has gotten tired of their pandemic so they are going to turn it off. Must be handy to have such superhuman powers. Declare a pandemic! Declare the pandemic over!

By: MinorityView

MinorityView — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:49:16 +0000

WHO gets caught lying again:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/apr06_2/c1904

Good work, Doshi and Jefferson!

By: Imma-Adama

Imma-Adama — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:54:06 +0000

Professor Dr Ulrich Keil, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology at the University of Munster:

A number of scientists and others are questioning the decision of the WHO to declare an international pandemic. The H1N1 virus is not a new virus, but has been known to us for decades. The H1N1 vaccination campaign was stopped abruptly when it was realised that the effects were milder than anticipated. I am asking for a reconsideration of this pandemic announcement by the WHO.

In Germany, about 10,000 deaths are attributed to seasonal ‘flu, especially among older and frail people. Only a very small number of deaths, namely 187, can be attributed to the H1N1 virus in Germany – and many of those are dubious.

The Director General of WHO declared the H1N1 pandemic in June 2009, triggering a cascade of actions by individual countries who were prepared for this by the SARS and Avian ‘Flu scares.

We are witnesssing a gigantic misallocation of resources in terms of public health. Governments and public health services are wasting huge amounts of money in investing in pandemic diseases whose evidence base is weak

http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/APFeaturesManager/defaultArtSiteView.asp?ID=900

Even some (at least one) people in the WHO are apparently re-thinking how much money needs to be spent on pandemic and seasonal flu…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:41:04 +0000

one of our readers wanted to post this comment but ran into a problem, so here it is:

The data referring to WHO definition are coming from Peter Doshi’s BMJ article : http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/sep03_2/b3471 and the table here is really interesting:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content-nw/full/339/sep03_2/b3471/TBL1 Maybe would be useful to mention it.

NostraBrucanus NB

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:03:48 +0000

Thanks for the enlightenment, Jupiter. Perhaps you should go back and hang out with your moons? Obviously, WHO couldn’t possibly have changed the definition so that “somebody” could sell oseltamivir, could they? Nah.

By: Jupiter

Jupiter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:54:06 +0000

If you were properly educated in the value of oseltamivir, you’d be well versed enough in modern vocabulary and communication methods to see through the junkscience and know that “enormous numbers of deaths” is simply a relative term.
Seasonal flu always kills “enormous” numbers of healthy children and adults, and deserves as much of our healthcare resources as possible, be it 10%, 50%, or whatever.
Cancer and stroke and myocardial infarction etc are completely unworthy of research and investment (especially since they’re always the fault of the patient) compared to flu, rotavirus, and varicella.
Not that I expect the lowbrows of society to understand this.