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.
Wodarg has criticised the measures taken against the swine flu as "one of
the biggest medical scandals of the century."
He said the influence of the the pharamaceutical industry on scientists and
government officials has resulted in "millions of healthy people being
exposed unnecessarily to the risks of an inadequately tested vaccine."
That even though, the swine flu virus is "much less harmful" than last
year's
seasonal flu causing "not even a tenth of the usual deaths associated with
flu."
Wodarg has also criticised the way pharemceutical companies have made
gigantic profits at the expense of tax payers.
He accused vaccine manufacturers of being willing even to inflict bodily
harm" in their pursuit of profits, noting that the adjuvants in the swine
flu jab have hardly been tested.
In addtion,the vaccine's side effects including dangerous paralysis have not
been adequately recorded.
Wodarg has said that the role of the WHO and its the pandemic emergency
declaration in June needs to be the especial focus of a European parliamtary
inquiry. For the first time the criteria for a pandemic was made not the
actual risk of a diseases but the number of cases of the disease.
By classifying the swine flu as pandemic, nations were compelled to
implement pandemic plans and also the purchase swine flu vaccines.
What is a pandemic should not be allowed to be defined by an organisation
that is clearly under the influence of the pharmaceutical companies that
profit from the sales of vaccines accompanying such a pandemic. Many of the
decision-makers in WHO have worked for the pharma industry and go back to
work in the pharma industry.