Study Published in Lancet Shows Bird Flu is Developing Resistance to TamiFlu

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According to a research published in The Lancet on Tuesday, it was observed that the bird flu strain H7N9 virus, which has already taken 36 lives since it spread in the beginning of the year, has started to show resistance to flu vaccine Tamiflu in a small scale trial in China.

The research study of 14 patients which were treated with antiviral drugs at Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre resulted in three becoming severely ill while undergoing treatments, which lead to the conclusion that the antiviral treatment had failed to reduce their viral load, i.e. a measure of the severity of the infection. Whereas, two out of the three treated patients eventually passed away, while the third had to be revived through a complicated treatment to reoxygenate his blood. The research states that all 14 sampled patients suffered from pneumonia, though majority showed a decrease in the viral load during treatment of a class of antiviral drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors, including Tamiflu, manufactured by Roche Holding AG (RHHBY).

The Lancet mentioned in a press release on Tuesday, that the researchers suspect the H7N9 virus has become resistant to the antiviral drugs in these cases. The authors of the research stated that “the apparent ease with which antiviral resistance emerges in H7N9 viruses is concerning, it needs to be closely monitored and considered in future pandemic response plans.” Meanwhile, it was noted that early treatment with these drugs remained the best course of action for treating the virus.

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  1. Tamiflu has never been that good anyway. Vietnamese doctors working at the ‘coal-face’ in 2009 sacomment_ID that it was ‘useless’ as it dcomment_ID not save any Vietnamese that were infected. The only way to stop the killer virus emerging is to address it at ‘source’. That’s what they dcomment_ID in 1997 in Hong Kong and it stopped the human-to-human killer virus in its tracks. That strategy was http://www.thewif.org.uk/home/shortrcomment_IDge_thailand_2008.pdf , but because there are not the tens of billions in drug sales it has been suppressed by the pharmaceutical companies. The irony of it is when it comes, as it will like the Spanish Flu dcomment_ID, it will decimate the global pharmaceutical industry in its wake. Indeed it will make the financial meltdown look like a storm in a teacup in comparison – that’s how mad the vaccine strategy really is.

    Dr Davcomment_ID Hill
    World Innovation Foundation

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