{"id":9283,"date":"2011-11-27T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2011-11-26T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T16:25:56","slug":"tw-growing-threat-of-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/tw-growing-threat-of-superbugs\/","title":{"rendered":"TW: Growing Threat of Superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following is from the latest <a href=\"\/ylcg.htm\">LCG<\/a> <em>TW News &amp; Prophecy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Growing  threat of super bugs.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>For years, scientists have warned about the growing strength and drug resistance  of bacteria. In Europe, nations are reporting drug resistance of up to 50% with  some bacterial infections. This means that antibiotics used to treat certain  bacterial infections are failing half of the time. Experts cite overprescribing  and misuse as major reasons that antibiotics are failing (<em>Reuters<\/em>,  November 17, 2011).Public health experts are fearful because of the lack of new and more  powerful antibiotics. It is not economically feasible for drug companies to  research and develop &#8220;last line of defense&#8221; drugs that will not be commonly  used.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus warned that disease epidemics&#8211;&#8220;pestilences&#8221;&#8211;would be one sign of the  end of the age (Luke 21:11), and that they would be part of the &#8220;beginning of  sorrows&#8221; (Matthew 24:8). As time goes on, we should expect to see more virulent  and difficult-to-treat outbreaks of disease. No doubt the drug resistance being  built up by the agents of infectious disease will play into God&#8217;s end-time  scenario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Notice some items from secular sources:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed three cases of a new flu virus,  which originated in pigs but <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">apparently spread from  person to person<\/span><\/strong>, in three Iowa children.&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> <\/span><\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/health\/story\/2011-11-24\/CDC-confirms-cases-of-new-swine-flu-virus\/51384636\/1\" href=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/health\/story\/2011-11-24\/CDC-confirms-cases-of-new-swine-flu-virus\/51384636\/1\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\">http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/health\/story\/2011-11-24\/CDC-confirms-cases-of-new-swine-flu-virus\/51384636\/1<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\"><p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Sweden concerned over &#8216;useless&#8217; flu vaccine  stockpiles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;<strong>Tamiflu,<\/strong> the  medication used to combat influenza,<strong> is useless in large parts of the  world<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">March 3,  2009<\/span> <\/span><\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/17956\/20090303\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/17956\/20090303\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\">http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/17956\/20090303\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>CDC Warns of New Swine Flu  Strain<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>ABC News<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Nov  25, 2011<\/strong> excerpt&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">U.S. health officials remain on the alert for additional  cases of a new <\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/h1n1flu\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/h1n1flu\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #30659c;\">swine flu <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">strain that infected three Iowa children this  month&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>The new flu strain is resistant to two commonly  used antiviral drugs<\/strong>, rimantidine and amantadine, but based upon their  genetic structure, would <strong>likely <\/strong>respond to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmedhealth\/PMH0001054\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmedhealth\/PMH0001054\/\"><span style=\"color: #30659c;\">osteltamivir <strong>(Tamiflu)<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmedhealth\/PMH0001049\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmedhealth\/PMH0001049\/\"><span style=\"color: #30659c;\">zanamivir (Relenza)<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/health\/2011\/11\/25\/new-swine-flu-strain\/\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/health\/2011\/11\/25\/new-swine-flu-strain\/\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/health\/2011\/11\/25\/new-swine-flu-strain\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Relatively soon, serious pestilences  are prophesied as they are part of what Jesus called  \u201cthe beginning of sorrows\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.  8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:7-8)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If humans quit eating pigs, the &#8220;swine flu&#8221; problem would probably go away.  But since many still do, it is possible that something more serious may happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Some articles of possibly related  interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/when-will-the-great-tribulation-begin.htm\">Can  the Great Tribulation Begin in 2011, 2012, or 2013?<\/a> Can the Great  Tribulation begin today? What is the \u201cbeginning of sorrows\u201d?  When is  the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of  the Lord?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/unclnt.htm\">The New Testament Church  and Unclean Meats<\/a> Are foods considered to have been unclean in the  Old Testament considered to be food in the New Testament? This article  discusses this from the perspective of the New Testament. It also has a  list of clean and unclean animals. It also answers the question, is pork  healthy or is pork dangerous?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/fourth-horseman-apocalypse-pale-horse-of-death.htm\">Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse<\/a> What is the pale horse of death and pestilence?  What will it bring and when?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COGwriter The following is from the latest LCG TW News &amp; Prophecy: Growing threat of super bugs. For years, scientists have warned about the growing strength and drug resistance of bacteria. In Europe, nations are reporting drug resistance of up to 50% with some bacterial infections. This means that antibiotics used to treat certain bacterial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9284,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}