Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.
In a shocking development to scientists attempting to find the origin of the H7N9 bird flu in China that has killed 36 people, one of the most well known of medicines to fight the disease is showing up ineffective.
Tamiflu, part of the only group of medicines that can treat bird flu, has been found to be ineffective in three of 14 patients in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The gene mutation that allows the virus to gain resistance to the medication appears to have developed in one patient after Tamiflu was used in treatment. This means the virus is able to adapt to the medication and could be a trigger to creating resistance in the virus.
The apparent ease with which antiviral resistance emerges in A/H7N9 viruses is concerning; it needs to be closely monitored and considered in future pandemic response plans,” researchers wrote in an article in the medical journal The Lancet.
Researchers have still not been able to find the source of the virus.
