Germany is stuck with €250 million worth of swine flu vaccine ordered during the height of the flu panic last winter but never used because the mass immunisation campaign was a failure, according to a Friday media report. Health authorities across Germany's 16 states still have 30 million shots left over. In the large western state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone has 6.4 million doses, the WAZ newspaper reported. Desperate efforts to sell off at least part of the surplus stock to other countries had so far failed, a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony Health Ministry confirmed to the paper. Lower Saxony has been looking for buyers on behalf of all the states. But with fear about swine flu sinking rapidly, no one yet has been prepared to fork out money for the left-over stock. The effort at mass immunisation failed. And after interest in the flu died down, the supply of the vaccine ended up grossly outweighing the demand.

The Local, Germany's News In English

Too Many Jumped On Swine Flu Hoax Bandwagon

Isn't it about time our Canadian publications come clean and state unequivocally that they did not do their due diligence when they contributed to the flu hype? In mid-May, about three weeks before the swine flu was declared a pandemic, 30 senior representatives of pharmaceutical companies met with WHO Director-General Chan and United Nations Secretary Gen. Ban Ki Moon at WHO headquarters. "The vaccine industry was mainly interested in one question: the decision to declare phase 6. Phase 6 acted as a switch that would allow bells on the industry's cash registers to ring, risk-free, because many pandemic vaccine contracts had already been signed." Polish health minister, physician Ewa Kopacz, saw through the scam and declined to buy swine flu vaccines for the country. She asked: "Is it my duty to sign agreements that are in the interest of Poles, or in the interest of the pharmaceutical companies?"

James PottBelleville, The Intelligencer

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