pandemic flu which has been discussed for months and that has led many governments including our significant funds to invest in vaccines and strategies of communication is actually a mere commercial transaction. The indictment comes hard epidemiologist Tom Jefferson Medconsumers in an interview.
To prove his thesis Jefferson uses a concrete example: Australia and Oceania, and the entire southern hemisphere have just spent an entire winter in influenza A - with a lot of cases, monopolized the headlines, panic among the population - no vaccine against the H1N1 virus.
But the budget is much less serious than expected pre-apocalyptic pandemic: Faced with a population of about 22 million people, and a wait of at least 6,000 dead at the end of winter in Australia were about 131 those associated with the virus, according to an official document of the Health Australian Protection Service of the September 16, 2009. Comment Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration: "It can be concluded that the H1N1 virus is not as menacing as he wanted to paint. And if Australia is going to meet a pandemic or not deserves further investigation. This is because, on the site of ' World Health Organization (WHO), the definition of a pandemic has changed with effect from May 2009. The previous version pandemic defined as: "An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears in a human population has no immunity causing epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses. "impersonator in the document that is currently on the site Web has changed the definition of a pandemic, "An epidemic of a disease occurs when there are more cases than normal of this disease.
A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease. An influenza pandemic may occur when it appears a new influenza virus against which the human population has no immunity. " This definition makes the difference between seasonal flu and pandemic influenza questionable. I wonder if this means that the world will always be in a pandemic. The world will always have to be vaccinated twice and spend a huge amount of money for vaccines and, of course, for antiviral drugs.
Journalists and others have contacted the WHO to have an explanation as to why the change of definition at all was always told that they would be contacted by someone, but that never happens. "
To prove his thesis Jefferson uses a concrete example: Australia and Oceania, and the entire southern hemisphere have just spent an entire winter in influenza A - with a lot of cases, monopolized the headlines, panic among the population - no vaccine against the H1N1 virus.
But the budget is much less serious than expected pre-apocalyptic pandemic: Faced with a population of about 22 million people, and a wait of at least 6,000 dead at the end of winter in Australia were about 131 those associated with the virus, according to an official document of the Health Australian Protection Service of the September 16, 2009. Comment Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration: "It can be concluded that the H1N1 virus is not as menacing as he wanted to paint. And if Australia is going to meet a pandemic or not deserves further investigation. This is because, on the site of ' World Health Organization (WHO), the definition of a pandemic has changed with effect from May 2009. The previous version pandemic defined as: "An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears in a human population has no immunity causing epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses. "impersonator in the document that is currently on the site Web has changed the definition of a pandemic, "An epidemic of a disease occurs when there are more cases than normal of this disease.
A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease. An influenza pandemic may occur when it appears a new influenza virus against which the human population has no immunity. " This definition makes the difference between seasonal flu and pandemic influenza questionable. I wonder if this means that the world will always be in a pandemic. The world will always have to be vaccinated twice and spend a huge amount of money for vaccines and, of course, for antiviral drugs.
Journalists and others have contacted the WHO to have an explanation as to why the change of definition at all was always told that they would be contacted by someone, but that never happens. "
Source: Napoli M. Medconsumers 24 / 09/2009
