World’s First 15-Minute Ebola Test Approved
World’s first 15-minute Ebola test approved – The World Health Organization has assessed and cleared an Ebola test that shows results in as little as 15 minutes. What’s more, it’s easy to perform and doesn’t require electricity, making it easier to use in community care clinics and mobile healthcare facilities throughout the western African countries at the heart of the current Ebola outbreak.
According to the WHO, the ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test Kit, made by US medical firm Corgenix, is unique in that it is “based on detection of the Ebola protein rather than nucleic acid.”
The rapid test is now “eligible for procurement to Ebola-affected countries” — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — where more than 23,000 people have been infected by the virus, which currently has no cure.
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