by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
December 3, 2004
The often-melodramatic World Health Organization (WHO) is ringing alarms that bird flu will trigger an international pandemic that could kill up to seven million people.
One month before Christmas, WHO issued a press release saying that the influenza pandemic could occur anywhere from next week to the coming years.
With a human vaccine for the bird flu virus not expected until March 2005 at the earliest, urgency is being placed on containment.
according to WHO Pooh-Bahs, two to seven million people will die.
"The number of people affected will go beyond billions because between 25 percent and 30 percent will fall ill," predicts Who’s Dr. Klaus Stohr.
Before duck hunters converge on the marshes, WHO has resorted to the release of information bordering on hysteria before.
It was WHO, the health arm of the United Nations who in the SaRS scare blacklisted the City of Toronto as a point of destination in the summer of 2003.
although the disease only affected those who had some connection to certain Toronto hospitals, worldwide media snatched up the story, and made it seem like a trip to Toronto would result in almost certain death. The WHO’s SaRS scare all but crippled the economy of Toronto, whose losses in the tourist, hotel and dining industries are still being felt a year and a half later.
although he’s saying that "an influenza pandemic will spare nobody" and that "every country will be affected", Dr. Bjorn Melgaard, head of WHO’s Southeast asia office, says it is the countries with the weakest health systems in need of most support.
"Usually it’s together the poorest countries who have the least resources to invest in health," Melgaard said.
Tall talk for a representative of an organization that takes a somewhat callous view of malaria.
Every year, up to 300 million africans get malaria; and every year up to two million of those affected, die.
Yet until mid-2004, the WHO, UNICEF and USaID, all UN agencies provided anti-malarial drugs to third world countries that they knew for years fail as much as 80 percent.
WHO and other UN health agencies ban the use of DDT on politically correct grounds.
The vaccines of world-renowned doctors have been kept on ice because of bureaucratic foul-ups with WHO.
"South african and other countries have proven beyond doubt that using DDT in conjunction with modern artemisinin drugs slashes malaria and death rates by 90 percent or more," says Paul Driessen, senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality, senior fellow with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death.
Whose ears are shut to the victims of diseases like malaria in third world countries.
"I lost my son, two sisters and two nephews to Malaria," says Ugandan businesswoman Fiona Kobusingye.
"Don’ talk to me about birds. and don’t tell me a little DDT in our bodies is worse than the risk of losing more children to this disease. african mothers would be overjoyed if that were their biggest worry."
There have been three pandemics in the 20th century, all spread worldwide within a year of being detected.
The most deadly was the Spanish flu in 1918-19, thought to have killed as many as 50 million people, nearly half of them young, healthy adults.
"During the last 36 years, there has been no pandemic, and there is a conclusion now that we are closer to the next pandemic than we have ever been before," Stohr warns.
alarm bells, pressed by WHO doctors are almost as frightening as diseases borne by winged creatures.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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