World Health Org Still Beating the Swine Flu Drum

The Associated Press reports today that Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) now believes that the swine flu (H1N1) outbreak "appears to have reached pandemic proportions." Chan intends to make a conference call to government leaders around the world tomorrow once she obtains "indisputable evidence." Currently, WHO states that swine flu has affected 26,563 people in 73 countries and caused 140 deaths.

Whoa, stop the presses. What an emergency. Far less than one percent of everyone who develops swine flu dies!

As far as I'm concerned, this is more fear-mongering by WHO, happily spread by a very compliant and ill-informed media.

Tomorrow, be on the lookout for calls from WHO and others for more vaccines (possibly mandatory), etc.

What will not be mentioned, should such calls occur, is the inherent risks such vaccines have, and the far greater percentage of deaths they are likely to cause.

As always, your best protection is to be informed and educate yourself because you simply cannot trust the media to ask the right questions or provide the best answers.