 In January 2010 , Wolfgang <unk> , a German deputy who trained as a physician and now chairs the health committee at the Council of Europe , claimed major firms had organised a " campaign of panic " to put pressure on the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) to declare a " false pandemic " to sell vaccines . <unk> said the WHO 's " false pandemic " flu campaign is " one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century " . He said that the " false pandemic " campaign began last May in Mexico City , when a hundred or so " normal " reported influenza cases were declared to be the beginning of a threatening new pandemic , although he said there was little scientific evidence for this . Nevertheless , he argued that the WHO , " in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists , re @-@ defined pandemics " , removing the statement that " an enormous amount of people have contracted the illness or died " from its existing definition and replacing it by stating simply that there has to be a virus , spreading beyond borders and to which people have no immunity . 
