Monday, June 7, 2010

What if pharmaceutical companies' influence led W.H.O. to exaggerate swine flu threat?

wheres the threat now? The H1N1 was supposedly going to be one of the worst pandemics we were ever going to see, with a purposive millions who were going to die. Well we got prepared, we have far fewer deaths and more then 70 million unused doses of the H1N1 vaccine(just in the U.S.). Now Europe is saying that the World Health Organization Over Exaggerated the threat, over cause that was poorly explained. This had lead to decrease in the trust of the W.H.O. They say that the W.H.O. caused unnecessary fear and wasted millions of dollars. The worst part is that they were getting their advice from the ones who were getting paid by the companies that were manufacturing the swine flu vaccine. But the W.H.O. of course denies all these cases and that the ones that are bringing this to the surface are being "irresponsible". But of course other experts are defending the health organization, saying they made the best decisions they could under the circumstances.

This is great. I was actually talking to my mom about this earlier, saying its weird how everyone was so afraid of what was going to happen, then everything was quiet and you didn't hear about the H1N1. I thought it was maybe because so many people got the preventive shot, i thought that we actually prevented it. but, now I'm not sure, i guess it could easily be the W.H.O.'s fault that everyone was worked up over nothing. Right now though i really don't have an opinion on if they did the wrong thing here.

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