The World Health Organization was the target of severe critics during hearings at the Council of Europe where it was force to take a defensive attitude facing accusations that it gave up to pressures from pharmaceutic companies to declare pandemic state of emergency for H1N1 virus, AFP informs.

WHO was summoned to answer some questions to the organizations as many Parliamentarians were convinced that it was a false pandemic. The agency rejected all accusations. German expert Wolfgang Wodarg accused WHO for exaggerating the situation and said that all people were vaccinated for nothing.