According to this article there might be reason to believe the World Health Organization overstated the seriousness of this strain of the flu for financial gain. Many of the scientists who work for the WHO also work or pharmacy companies who made billions on this vaccine.
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The financial association in and of itself looks bad but, isn't proof that these scientist were unethical in stating the impact of this flu. What hurts their credibility more is the little impact this flu has had so far. If waiting rooms have been overwhelmed with the seriously sick and dying I haven't heard about it. Perhaps I've missed the news but, I havn't heard about significant deaths in the third world caused by this strain of the flu. We don't even know how many actually has gotten the H1N1 in Canada because they aren't testing everyone who has symptoms because the strain it would put on the labs.