The "false pandemic" Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, has claimed that the swine flu outbreak was a "false pandemic" driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare. He accused the pharmaceutical firms who produced the flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic. A resolution proposed by Dr Wodarg calling for an investigation into the role of drug firms has been passed by the Council of Europe. Daily Mail, January 11, 2010