Teresa Forcades i Vila is a Benedictine nun at Sant Benet of Montserrat’s monastery, near Barcelona, Spain. Before joining the monastery Teresa practiced medicine for several years as a physician specialized in internal medicine and she has a PhD in Public Health from Barcelona’s University. She also carried out her specialization at NY State University, USA.
In these series of videos, Teresa discusses the swine flu’s origins and how WHO’s definition of pandemia was morphed to fit this swine flu as ...
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Paul Weindling is an expert on medicine in Nazi Germany and is author of Health, Race and German Politics, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, and Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials.
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