Folklight Reflections

WHO Advisor Secretly Pads Pockets with Big Pharma Money In Finland, sits a state employee researcher with a problem. It did begin well. This year Professor Juhani Eskolas vaccine research program got 47 million dollars for research into pneumococcal vaccine from the danish medical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. The largest single contribution the professor's institution has received in 2009. But then came the press, and then came the Finnish Minister of Health with wagging fingers, and now sits Finnish professor suddenly in a national conflict of interest. Juhani Eskola is also an advisor to WHO's so-called SAGE group. And it means something when you get 47 million dollars of industry. And he do not disclose it . Since November, the danish newspaper Information described seven WHO experts who have either secondary job as consultants for the pharmaceutical industry or get their research funded by the pharmaceutical industry. The same experts who counseled the WHO General Margaret...

This seems just a little suspicious to me... US Government files for a patent on Swine Flu Virus in 2005? "US Patent Application 20090010962 " - Genetically Engineered Swine Influenza Virus and Uses Thereof" “The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated swine influenza viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated swine influenza viruses having modifications to a swine NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. These viruses replicate in vivo, but demonstrate decreased replication, virulence and increased attenuation, and therefore are well suited for use in live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations” For those who enjoy science there's these quotes ... "The three parents of the virus may have...