The Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) has called swine flu epidemic the main medical scandal of the century and intents to hold hearings in January on the problem of false pandemic of A/H1N1 virus.
There have been already 32 deaths of A/H1N1 in Egypt. Meanwhile Israel is ready to provide Gaza with swine flu vaccine.
Does Tamiflu really protect us from swine flu disease? The wide usage of anti-viral medicines has already lead to the mutation of the virus.
According to the last data of the World Health Organization (WHO) published on November, 20 there are over 526 000 laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu and at least 6770 deaths due to A/H1N1 virus all over the world.
Poland refused the purchase of vaccines against A/H1N1 virus until any guarantees of their safety are obtained. Polish Government doubts in the safety of swine flu vaccinations for people’s health. That is why it refused deliveries of these medicines to the country.
Passing over swine flu does not mean the person is healthy. People can reveal serious lung injury later after passing over disease. According to the report of the chief pulmonologist of the Lvov region people passed over pneumonia have a risk to obtain chronic lung diseases such as bronchial asthma or fibrous changes. And it is hard to forecast their effects.
According to the last information of the Ministry of health protection the number of flu victims has reached 299 people including 17 of them died the last day.
The culture of A/H1N1 virus is not as dangerous as it is talked about. But there are some categories of people exposed to this virus more than others. The director of one of the hospitals Andrei Palchevsky organized the press-conference to discuss this problem.
The specialists consider that vaccination against H1N1 flu produced for Europe in USA is safe and effective. Otherwise the EU press has found the argument to make a scandal on it. It is that vaccines being delivered to the Europe are divided on two types: for VIPs and ordinary people.
Nowadays the swine flu can brag not only of the grieved official statistics but also the economic achievements. The illness can also be named as ‘money flu’ or ‘dollar plague’. The pharmaceutical companies have earned about 1 milliard USD over profits on the world’s flu panic. For example the profits of Roche company from selling Tami Flu which is considered to be the most effective drug against flu have grown up to 1 milliard USD since the appearing of A/H1N1 virus in April, 2009.