歐洲理事會衛生首長驚爆：H1N1是本世紀最大醫學醜聞

英國《每日郵報》報導歐洲理事會衛生首長沃達格(Wolfgang Wodarg)、同時也是流行病學專家直指，新流感疫情「遭誇大」，目的是為了讓藥廠銷售疫苗，可說是「本世紀最大的醫學醜聞」(全文如下)。去年H1N1新流感來勢洶洶，幾乎全世界都淪陷，世界衛生組織(WHO)曾經預測，全球將有20億人被感染，死亡人數可能會介於15萬到100萬人，但截至目前為止，全球新流感的死亡人數有11000多人。

沃達格也進一步指出，藥廠甚至在世衛組織中安插自己的人，藉由全球疫情升級訓息，讓製造疫苗的藥廠從中獲取暴利，儼然是本世紀最大的醫學醜聞，讓許多健康的民眾接種不必要的疫苗。反觀衛生署及國民黨一直在為國光疫苗護航：從一開始的未完成人體實驗、便上市(見下面影片)，拒絕立委監督，替國光疫苗大打廣告，所有副作用都與疫苗無關，隱藏國光疫苗的副作用及不良反應的數目.....等與國光生技站在同一立場，說沒有如同上述的官商勾結，誰能相信？

何美鄉解說國光沒照法規完成人体實驗就開始讓大家打疫苗的理由


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馬總統不可草菅人命 謝炎堯 (和信治癌中心醫院副院長、曾任台灣大學醫學院內科教授)

台中劉小弟注射國光新流感疫苗後死亡的電視畫面，引人流了不少同情淚，劉小弟生前被診斷有「瀰漫性血管內凝血」，「司法解剖」尚無法找到引起「瀰漫性血管內凝血」的病因。2004年3月18日的《新英格蘭醫學雜誌》，刊登一位素來健康的18歲青年，感染季節性A型流感五天後發生「瀰漫性血管內凝血」，併發病毒性肺炎、心肌炎和橫紋肌崩潰，住院36小時後休克死亡。

2009年7月24日美國疾病管制局的官方刊物《罹病與死亡周報》（MMWR），報告季節性流感和H1N1新流感都可能併發抽搐、腦炎、腦病變、雷氏症候群等神經症狀。

依據日本文獻，這些神經症狀通常在出現流感症狀1至2日後出現，這些病人約半數完全康復，但是五分之一的病人死亡，十分之一的病人遺留嚴重殘障，我國也有不少民眾注射國光新流感疫苗後，發生這些併發症，可是衛生署疾病管制局斷言一切與注射國光新流感疫苗無關。

官員竟指媒體造謠
傅達仁先生接受國光新流感疫苗注射後約二周，罹患新流感，他懷疑國光新流感疫苗無效，或是注射疫苗感染疾病，但是疾病管制局的官員說這可能是偽陽性的檢驗錯誤。

截至2010年1月6日，注射新流感疫苗的不良反應通報累積達673件，17人死亡，民眾高度懷疑國光新流感疫苗的安全性，可是當媒體報導新聞事實，和反映民意時，衛生署和疾病管制局的官員指責是親綠媒體造謠生事，破壞國家疫苗政策。不遵循審查疫苗不良反應的國際標準作業程序，檢驗國光新流感疫苗的品質，組織專案小組進行分析審查，只請非專業人士在電視上作信心喊話。

2007年出版的《納爾遜小兒科學》第170章，敘述疫苗的研發，關鍵性的第三階段人體臨床試驗要收納成千上萬人，研發經費至少要美金8億元，國光生技公司只有數百人的人體臨床試驗，衛生署就發給上市銷售許可證，依法無據。
對新流感全球大流行的威脅，美國依法宣布是緊急狀態，基於沒有其他疫苗可供使用，在完成數百人的人體臨床試驗後，沒有明顯安全性和有效性的顧慮，發給五家過去有製造季節性流感疫苗實績的廠商緊急使用授權憑證（emergency use authorization）為期一年，而且要繼續尚未完成的第三階段人體臨床試驗，我國也沒有比照辦理。

封存國光疫苗檢驗
選民所關心的是眼前切身的健康，不是可以不吃的美國牛肉或是經濟效應不確定的ECFA（Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement，兩岸經濟合作架構協議），選民以選票表達心聲。

我曾經呼籲應重視國光新流感疫苗安全性的嚴重性（《蘋果日報》2010/1/7），也建議馬英九總統敦請李遠哲院士出面處理國光新流感疫苗事件，邀請美國食物藥品管理局和疾病管制局的專家，以及歐盟的對應單位，會同沒有政治和利益衝突的海外學人，調查國光新流感疫苗的製造過程和疫苗品質，同時要封存國光新流感疫苗，逐批檢驗（《蘋果日報》2009/12/31）。現在亡羊補牢尚不為晚，敬請重視人命。

附註：2010年1月7日在《蘋果日報》發表的「信心喊話不能解決問題」一文中，一個雞胚胎平均能培養出「0.6」劑季節性流感疫苗的病毒數，正確的數字應是「1.4」，感謝東森新聞台《關鍵時刻》節目的指正，並向讀者致歉。

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The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims Euro health chief

By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 8:38 AM on 11th January 2010

The swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic.

This led to the pharmaceutical firms ensuring 'enormous gains', while countries, including the UK, 'squandered' their meagre health budgets, with millions being vaccinated against a relatively mild disease.

A resolution proposed by Dr Wodarg calling for an investigation into the role of drug firms has been passed by the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based 'senate' responsible for the European Court of Human Rights.

An emergency debate on the issue will be held later this month.

Dr Wodarg's claims come as it emerged the British government is desperately trying to offload up to £1billion of swine flu vaccine, ordered at the height of the scare.
Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson last year ordered the NHS to plan for up to 65,00 deaths

Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson last year ordered the NHS to plan for up to 65,000 deaths

The Department of Health warned of 65,000 deaths, set up a special advice line and website, suspended normal rules so anti-flu drugs could be given out without prescription and told health and local authorities to prepare for a major pandemic.

Planners were told to get morgues ready for the sheer scale of deaths and there were warnings that the Army could be called in to prevent riots as people fought to obtain drugs.

But with fewer than 5,000 in England catching the disease last week and just 251 deaths overall, Dr Wodarg has branded the H1N1 outbreak as 'one of the greatest medical scandals of the century'.

He said: 'We have had a mild flu - and a false pandemic.'

He added the seeds of the scare were sown five years ago, when it was feared the much more lethal bird flu virus would mutate into a human form.

The 'atmosphere of panic' led to governments stockpiling the anti-flu drug Tamiflu and putting in place 'sleeping contracts' for millions of doses of vaccine

Dr Wodarg said: 'The governments have sealed contracts with vaccine producers where they secure orders in advance and take upon themselves almost all the responsibility.

'In this way the producers of vaccines are sure of enormous gains without having any financial risks.

'So they just wait, until WHO says "pandemic" and activate the contracts.'

He also claims that to further push their interests, leading drug companies placed 'their people' in the 'cogs' of the WHO and other influential organisations.

He added that their influence could have led the WHO to soften its definition of a pandemic - leading to the declaration of a worldwide outbreak last June.

Dr Wodarg said: 'In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide.

'They have made them squander tight healthcare resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.'

He does not name any Britons with conflicts of interest.

But last year, the Daily Mail revealed that Sir Roy Anderson, a scientist who advises the Government on swine flu, also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline.

GSK makes anti-flu drugs and vaccines and is predicted to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic.

The Department of Health says that although the disease appears to be on the wane, it cannot rule out a third surge and urges all those entitled to the jab to have it.

Professor David Salisbury, the Government's head of immunisation said there were 'no grounds whatsoever' for Dr Wodarg's claims, saying people with conflicts of interest were kept out of the decision-making process.

A GSK spokesman said: 'Allegations of undue influence are misguided and unfounded. The WHO declared that H1N1 swine flu met the criteria for a pandemic.

'As WHO have stated, legal regulations and numerous safeguards are in place to manage possible conflicts of interest.'

The company, which still employs Sir Roy, said he had declared his commercial interests and had not attended any meetings related to the purchase of drugs or vaccine for either the Government or GSK.