World Health Pandemic Organization Censured

Beijing, March 15, 2050: In a dramatic session of the UN Security Council in Beijing today the council voted to censure the World Health and Pandemic Organization for its recent public call for governments to devote significant resources to preparing for a PN-561 Rodent Flu pandemic.

Council Chairperson, Wen Hei, said the WHPO call was 'scaremongering of the most base kind, intended purely to improve the deterioriating financial situation of an organisation created to deal with pandemics which have never materialised.' The Council censure motion called for the WHPO to withdraw its current evaluation of the global risk of PN-561, but stopped short of calling for the WHPO to be disbanded. 'The WHPO has cried 'wolf' once too often. There is a credibility gap it needs to address,' Mr Hei said.

The WHPO recommended immediate financing of a new Rodent Flu educational campaign in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, an increase in stockpiling of the vaccine HOP-411 manufactured by pharmaceutical company Bristolofi, and an increase in WHPO funding of 209bn. Euro to pay for increased research and field intervention.

The Council was presented with a case study compiled by the University of Western China, looking at the 2014 WHPO led campaign against the H4-N3 bat virus, its first and most significant global campaign to date. The UWC report concluded that:

-the WHPO overstated the speed at which such a virus could mutate and pose a threat to humans
-it consistently overstated the likelihood of human to human transfer of the virus
-it provided funding to scientists whose research supported the Bat Flu Pandemic hypothesis, and cut or denied funding to scientists who argued against it
-it paid a global PR agency to track and publicise all cases of suspected Bat Flu, ensuring the issue remained high on the media agenda
-it received grants from vaccine manufacturers for Bat Flu related projects
-it more than quadrupled its operating budget in the period between 2008 and 2024, mostly as a result of funding related to Bat Flu research, PR and field work

The UWC noted that the WHOs own records demonstrated that between 2008 and 2019, only 1050 people globally died of Bat Flu, and no case of human to human transmission was ever proven. Investigators compared this to the approximately two million people who died of common influenza in China in the same period.