PHM-Exch> WHO list reveals flu advisors with financial ties to pharma, vaccine manufacturers

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: bala at haiap.org <bala at haiap.org>

After months of stalling, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally
revealed the names of key pandemic advisors who influenced its decision to
declare a phase six pandemic last year -- a decision that resulted in *a
financial windfall for vaccine manufacturers*. As you'll see here, that list
includes at least five expert advisors received money from vaccine
companies.

Here's who received money from Big Pharma and then influenced the WHO
decision to declare a pandemic:

*Arnold Monto* is a professor from the United States who has received money
from virtually all the major vaccine manufacturers:
GSK,Novartis<http://www.naturalnews.com/Novartis.html>,
Roche, Baxter and Sanofi Pasteur. He has specifically been given grant money
by Sanofi Pasteur to study influenza<http://www.naturalnews.com/influenza.html>
 vaccines.

*Nancy Cox* works for the US Centers for Disease Control, which already
maintains a pro-vaccine stance while utterly ignoring the importance of
vitamin D in halting infectious
disease<http://www.naturalnews.com/infectious_disease.html>.
Nancy took funds from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) to conduct work on
vaccines<http://www.naturalnews.com/vaccines.html>
.

*John Wood* works at Britain's National Institute for Biological Standards
and Control (NIBSC). They've taken money from Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis and
several other companies <http://www.naturalnews.com/companies.html> focused
on influenza vaccine research.

*Maria Zambon* is a professor at the UK Health Protection Agency Centre for
Infection. She has received money from Sanofi, Novartis, CSL,
Baxter<http://www.naturalnews.com/Baxter.html> and
GSK.

*Neil Ferguson* is also a professor, and he has accepted money from
Roche<http://www.naturalnews.com/Roche.html> and
GSK Biologicals.

There may be more to this story, too: The financial ties explained here are
merely the ones that these people chose to publicly disclose to
WHO<http://www.naturalnews.com/WHO.html>.
There may yet be other ties that currently remain a secret and will have to
be dug up by some determined reporter...

What's the problem with financial ties, anyway?Why does it matter that WHO
advisors took money from vaccine companies? It's simple: The decision to
declare H1N1 swine flu to be a phase 6
pandemic<http://www.naturalnews.com/pandemic.html> was
made by the WHO under advisement from these very people who received money
from vaccine companies. And that decision, we now know, resulted in a
windfall of profits <http://www.naturalnews.com/profits.html> for the
vaccine companies.

Those profits, in turn, were burdened by the taxpayers whose expenditures
were largely worthless because a huge portion of those vaccines are now
expiring and have to be destroyed. The money was wasted, in other words.

It all has the makings of a *grand global con*: The WHO enlists advisors
with financial ties to the vaccine
industry<http://www.naturalnews.com/industry.html> to
decide whether a pandemic is under way and then conveniently follows their
advice in making a decision that many
health<http://www.naturalnews.com/health.html> experts
around the world have been questioning from the start. It all has the
appearance of *medical corruption*, and it looks like WHO decisions are
based more on *politics* than medical science.

It was politically convenient, in other words, to declare a stage six
pandemic. And if these WHO advisors have already received money from vaccine
manufacturers, it's certainly within the realm of possibility that they
would soon be financially rewarded with yet more payoffs. (You scratch my
back and I'll scratch yours...)

The appearance of corruptionThe unfortunate upshot of all this is that even
if these WHO advisors are completely innocent, their financial ties still
create *the appearance of corruption*. And that means the
WHO<http://www.naturalnews.com/the_WHO.html> is
losing credibility that may compromise its integrity when a real pandemic
comes along. If the world can't trust the World Health
Organization<http://www.naturalnews.com/World_Health_Organization.html>,
in other words, then who should countries look to for real answers on
pandemics and infectious disease <http://www.naturalnews.com/disease.html>?

Sadly, even the CDC <http://www.naturalnews.com/CDC.html> in the US has now
clearly positioned itself as an "anti-nutrition, pro-vaccine" organization,
too. Ignoring the huge importance of vitamin D and the support of the human
immune system, many CDC experts have also either been on the payrolls of
vaccine manufacturers or are looking to join Big
Pharma<http://www.naturalnews.com/Big_Pharma.html> when
offered a job. The former head of the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding, was
recently offered a position as the president of Merck's vaccine division (
http://www.naturalnews.com/027789_D...<http://www.naturalnews.com/027789_Dr_Julie_Gerberding_Merck.html>
).

The frustrating fact is that *modern medicine has been subverted by Big
Pharma*. The vaccine industry practically runs the CDC and WHO -- or at the
very least, it heavily influences decisions by these two organizations. As a
result, the so-called "scientific" decisions made by these organizations
have very little to do with actual science but everything to do with
protecting (and expanding) the profits of vaccine manufacturers.

And when public health policy is decided based on corporate profits, the
people will always suffer.

Did you notice that the list of WHO advisors did not include even a single
naturopathic physician? Not a single holistic
nutritionist<http://www.naturalnews.com/nutritionist.html>?
There was nobody on the board that brought a pro-nutrition point of view to
the discussions. And you know why nutritionists and naturopaths weren't
invited to join the WHO advisory board? *Because the WHO has already
pre-decided it doesn't want to hear those points of view.* It has stubbornly
decided to entertain only vaccines as the solution to virtually all
infectious disease.

And if you only invite vaccine pushers to the table, guess what kind of
advice you're going to get? "Push more vaccines!"

Asking a bunch of vaccine experts whether you should declare a pandemic is
sort of like asking your
insurance<http://www.naturalnews.com/insurance.html> agent
whether you need more insurance. Well of course you do!

No wonder the WHO has lost so much credibility. It refuses to look at real
solutions that might work for poor nations (such as low-cost vitamin D
supplements) while strongly favoring the high-profit operations of the
vaccine industry. That's why the WHO simply can't be trusted anymore. It has
now become a pawn of the pharmaceutical industry that will always make
decisions that favor the financial interests of Big Pharma.

See the WHO list of advisors here:
http://www.who.int/ihr/emerg_comm_m...<http://www.who.int/ihr/emerg_comm_members_2009/en/index.html>


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