Ukraine: H1N1 is not the problem

December 5, 2009

another viewpoint

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Economic Catastrophe Conducive to Deterioration of Health Conditions

By F. Engdahl

The Ukraine deaths attributed by WHO and Ukraine authorities to an

uncontrolled outbreak of H1N1 Swine Flu are not the result of H1N1, a

virus whose very existence has never been demonstrated by WHO. The

deaths appear to be a consequence of collapsing general health

conditions as well as supplies of basic grains. The IMF

conditionalities imposed on Ukraine as a precondition for a

stabilization loan and not Swine Flu is where we should look for the cause.

Very telling is the fact that since the political decision was made

inside the Geneva World Health Organization this past summer to

declare an unproven H1N1 Influenza A virus " pandemic level " threat to

mankind, earlier WHO warnings about outbreak of Tuberculosis and

strains of TB in Ukraine that defy treatment with drugs have

mysteriously vanished. Could this be because WHO and the large pharma

industry behind it prefer to call it Swine Flu and sell dangerous new

untested vaccines laced with possibly deadly or maiming adjuvants?

Under recently revised WHO definitions, death from TB or lung

disorders is lumped in the same " cause of death " category as death

from influenza. The WHO International Statistical Classification of

Diseases, ICD-10, Chapter X, " Diseases of the Respiratory System, "

Code J09-18, combine under one title: Influenza and Pneumonia. The

cause of death from untreated TB is recorded as pneumonia and dumped

into J09-18. The suspicion is that this was done for political

reasons and that all the deaths reported since April 2009 attributed

to H1N1 Influenza A are in fact deaths of patients with severe

pulmonary conditions such as TB that has been left untreated

resulting in fatal pneumonia. [1]

TB at record levels

In February 2008, the WHO had issued a warning about a deadly spread

of TB in Ukraine. According to a Reuters report of February 26, 2008,

the WHO stated that " Cases of tuberculosis that defy existing drugs

are being recorded globally at the highest rates ever seen, with

parts of the former Soviet Union especially vulnerable. "

The report continued, " Based on data from 81 countries, the WHO

estimated nearly half a million people a year worldwide become

infected with a form of TB resistant to two or more of the primary

drugs used to treat it. That number accounts for about 5 percent of

the 9 million new TB cases annually. Extensively drug-resistant TB,

the form that is hardest to treat, was seen in 45 countries and may

be present in others because only extremely limited data was

available from Africa, the UN health agency said. " [2]

" This is my frustration here -- the world is not taking this epidemic

seriously, " Dr. Raviglione, director of the WHO Stop TB

Department, said in a telephone interview. " What the report shows is

simply that we are in big trouble in many parts of the world. "

The WHO reported then that Russia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Ukraine

were among the countries hit hardest by drug-resistant TB. Raviglione

attributed this to years of socioeconomic deterioration, dismantling

of public health systems, poor living conditions and other factors.

According to the 2008 WHO study the highest rate of so-called

multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, was recorded in Baku,

capital of Azerbaijan, where 22 percent of all new TB cases were

reported as multidrug-resistant. That's the highest proportion ever

recorded in any population. They noted MDR-TB also was unusually

common in Moldova (19 percent of new TB cases) as well as parts of

Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan, the WHO report showed.

The study was the first big WHO report on TB since 2004. The

Americas, Central Europe and Africa reported the lowest proportions

of MDR-TB, aside from Peru, Rwanda and Guatemala. [3]

As a precondition for its emergency currency stabililzation loan in

November 2008 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demanded and

continues to demand that the Ukraine government slash pension

payments as well as public spending on health and other services,

creating a mass breeding ground for the present outbreak of what are

believed to be deaths caused not by H1N1 but by virulent TB.

Harvest disaster

Compounding the crisis is a looming harvest failure in Ukraine, a

land once the " bread basket of Europe. " According to the

authoritative agricultural inspection company, SGS Agricultural

Services of Geneva, damage by bugs is a serious problem in this

season's Black Sea region wheat crops. They report that damage to the

harvest by insects in Ukraine will average a very high 4.6% and that

in some parts of Ukraine it is running as high as 80%. [4]

The reason, reports SGS, in addition to climate considerations is the

fact that farmers have no money to purchase pesticides because of the

national economic crisis. US and EU wheat suppliers are reportedly

not unhappy about the Ukraine losses. However it has potentially

catastrophic consequences on domestic Ukraine prices for basic bread

for the diet and further lowers the nutrition levels of a vulnerable

population. Perhaps GlaxoKline should put their energies into

discovering a vaccine against the IMF instead.

Notes

1. World Health Organization, International Statistical

Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th

Revision, Version for 2007.

2. Will Dunham, Drug-resistant TB seen at record levels globally,

Reuters, Feb. 26, 2008.

3. Ibid.

4. J. Borejan, Presentation at Global Grain 2009, Nov. 25, 2009.

F. Engdahl is author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian

Democracy in the New World Order. He may be contacted through his

website www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net

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December 5, 2009