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THE swine flu scare was a "false pandemic" led by drugs companies that stood to make billions from vaccines, a leading health expert said. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic, UK tabloid The Sun reports. He believes it is, "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century", and has called for an inquiry. An emergency debate on the issue will be held by the Council of Europe later this month.