Drug firms made 'false H1N1 claims'

Al Jazeera English 2012-05-31

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The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, has accused the makers of vaccines for the virus of influencing the World Health Organisation's (WHO) decision to declare a pandemic.

Tarek Bazely reports

(Jan 11, 2010)

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