Ebola -- Guinea
1 Jun 2016: New Idylla Ebola virus triage test granted emergency use authorization by U.S. FDA
[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) diagnostic test that can detect Ebola virus during a suspected outbreak. The Idylla-TM EBOV Test detects the Ebola strain which caused greater than 11 000 deaths in the West Africa 2014 outbreak. The test uses only a few drops of blood and can distinguish Ebola from other fevers, such as malaria,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/1taWGFn
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