WHO Pushes for Rapid, Safe Ebola Diagnostic Tests

The World Health Organization reports it is launching two initiatives to stimulate the development of better and faster Ebola diagnostic tests for use in heavily disease-infected West African countries. Sensitive Ebola diagnostic tests are urgently needed to stem the transmission of this fatal disease in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the U.N. agency said. It said said cumbersome, slow and complex tests have hampered efforts to contain the outbreak. More than 12 WHO mobile...

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