Recently, The British Medical Journal, which is the equivalent of the Journal of American Medical Association, concluded through their studies that the World Health Organization unduly scared the general public about the threat of Swine Flu or otherwise know as H1N1. In fact, their own statistics show that deaths from swine flu account for 5% of all the influenza deaths last year. Hardly enough to call the swine flu a pandemic. So is this a case where the people in charge got caught up in the so called health scare or something more malicious? According to the BMJ article, several high ranking officials in the WHO have significant financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that produce vaccines including swine flu. Countries throughout Europe and the United States bought millions of vaccines with tax payer money due to the WHO recommendation and misleading information.
But this isn’t the first time we’ve had controversy with the swine flu. In the late 1970′s, a similar panic by the U.S. government led to millions of people getting the flu shot unnecessarily.
We should be careful with what media, government, and institutions such as the WHO are telling us, because their intentions are not always clear and their information can be flawed by their interpretation. Ultimately, we should take away the fact that health doesn’t exist outside of our own innate ability to heal and thrive. We can trust that we have been made by the ultimate creator one that made sure we have everything we need to be healthy.
