"WHO director general brings seasoned urgency to flu battle; Chan guided by lessons learned from SARS in '03" by Gardiner Harris and Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times | May 10, 2009
NEW YORK - Rules adopted in 2005 by the WHO, based in Geneva, have made Chan perhaps the most powerful international public health official in history. She no longer must beg for cooperation from national authorities but can demand information about threats to global health.
All of this authority is packed into a diminutive woman with large glasses who does not drive, type or cook, is fond of sharp suits and silver pins, and may be among the most qualified people in the world to lead the global response to the threat of a pandemic flu....
Oooh, globalist elite to the core!
And it all started because her boyfriend decided to move to Canada....
Chan faced a terrible decision in 1997 when an outbreak of avian influenza threatened the population. Fresh poultry is a Hong Kong staple, but Chan ordered the region's population of 1.4 million chickens and ducks slaughtered. The outbreak ended....
Translation; she exhibited the calculating coldness a mass-murdering genocider needs to reduce this world's population with the selective release of biological weapons.
Chan was later criticized by some in Hong Kong for failing to respond quickly enough to the 2003 SARS epidemic, although a panel of experts supported her leadership. Her rapid and urgent response to an infectious threat from Mexico last month grew out of that experience, several who knew her said.
In 2005, rules adopted by the WHO gave the director general complete authority to change the global pandemic alert level. In her announcement on April 29, Chan made it clear that she alone had decided to raise the pandemic alert....
Isn't that the essence of dictatorship?
Of course, we know whom this is to benefit:
"Flu underlines need to make vaccines fast" by Scott Helman, Globe Staff | May 11, 2009
WORCESTER - Every outbreak of a potentially fatal new infection such as swine flu prompts the same question: How long do we have to wait for a vaccine?
Related: Tamiflu Taming Swine Flu
Traditional flu vaccines inoculate people with a dead virus so their immune systems can develop antibodies against it. They are effective, but take time to develop. In the case of swine flu, specialists say, a vaccine may take six months to develop....
Just in time for the mandatory inoculations, right?
I never took the flu shots and have done just fine (knock wood). I never trusted their needles; even less so now.
Eric von Hofe, president of Antigen Express, a small Worcester biotechnology firm, [are] part of the growing industry of alternative vaccine development, are trying to accomplish.
See: Why You Are Getting National Health Care
Antigen Express, a subsidiary of Generex Biotechnology Corp., is developing so-called peptide flu vaccines, which contain enough components of a virus to train the body's immune system to recognize the real thing when it comes around. The idea is to trick the body essentially into thinking it has had a virus before, even when it hasn't.
Synthetic vaccines are not as effective as traditional vaccines, but they can be produced more rapidly and in greater quantities for mass distribution. They would, von Hofe said, significantly lessen the severity of infection - and thus the chance of dying - for potentially millions of people.
Yeah, whatever. It's clear this is all about looting and the neocon agenda, not health!
The technology is still years away from the market, but von Hofe is optimistic that peptide vaccines will prove effective, pass regulatory scrutiny, and perhaps be available within five to 10 years.
And how much public money is going to get blown and flushed in the process for a product that will likely lose money -- if developed at all?
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Update: Tamiflu Developer: Swine Flu May Have Been Released From A Lab
Accidentally, huh?
See: Bush Prepares Release of Bio-Weapons on American Public
Siiiiiiighhh!
Passed it off to 'bamer, did he?
Here's one who didn't get the chance to be world health dictator:
ALBANY, N.Y. - Former surgeon general Antonia Novello pleaded not guilty yesterday to forcing state employees to work overtime to handle her personal chores when she was New York's health commissioner. The inspector general said the 2,500 hours of overtime put in by the New York state workers cost taxpayers about $48,000. Novello was paid $256,000 annually....
