Report Says Rapid Diagnostic Tool Critical To Containing Recent DRC Ebola Outbreak

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Report finds responsive research, innovative technology, training critical to controlling DRC Ebola outbreak
Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses a report published in Clinical Infectious Diseases outlining the importance of a new Ebola rapid diagnostic tool in identifying the virus strain causing the recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (7/5).

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