Posted on 10/17/2014 8:49:25 AM PDT by maggief
Thanks for following up Maggie :)
Dr. Bob Garry, a scientist at Tulane University, is working harder than ever to get one possible solution—a rapid diagnostic test approved.[Regarding the present, lengthy waiting for symptoms to show ... and the current tests]
It’s the breakdown in care caused by delay that Garry and his team are hoping to fix. The scientists began working in West Africa roughly 10 years ago on another fever called Lassa. Over the course of a few years, they developed a rapid diagnostic test that allowed doctors to give patients a diagnosis on the spot. When the first cases of Ebola began popping up in West Africa, Garry and his team began “fortifying” existing labs they had in the area. In the creation of the Lassa fever test strips, they had also made a similar, but separate, Ebola test. But without any presence of Ebola in the region until this year, they were unable to test them until now.
The value of the rapid diagnostic test lies in its simplicity. It consists of a small white lancet, which requires just a small drop of blood. In 15 minutes or less, a positive or negative line will appear on the test, indicating Ebola positive or negative. "They work like pregnancy tests except its blood," says Garry.
“What our tests would permit one to do is to basically see if a person has Ebola on the spot,” Garry tells me. “They are not perhaps as sensitive as a PCR. That’s a very sophisticated test, but they don’t really have to be. What we’re most interested in doing is coming out with a test that could detect when someone is infectious, immediately.”
The machine is useless without the assay. The Ebola PCR assay was granted emergency approval for use in Africa, but not here. The hospital has the machine, but cannot get the assay.
Thanks for the info.
Again, the old Latin question, Cui Bono, needs to be applied re why isn’t this test at every hospital and clinical lab.
Cui Bono, who benefits, when this new test isn’t available.
Are the benefactors, contributors to the DNC/BarrackEobolabama?
Maybe a new statement with Cui Bono, “Follow the Money” is in order.
From the replies to your question.
It appears that if the patient has any verbal responses and symptons that might indicate an exposure to Ebola, they are being isolated and being admitted until some real tests can be run.
Yes it seems that way . It’s a mess isn’t it. .
Reportedly, Brantly and Writebol were treated with ZMapp outside US jurisdiction, before being flown to Emory. "By the next morning, Brantly was able to take a shower on his own before getting on a specially designed Gulfstream air ambulance jet to be evacuated to the United States."
The problem there was fear by the Justice Dept. that if the FBI used CIA information a court might throw it out, and the government couldn't get a conviction. Seems to me preventing the 9/11 disaster would have been worth it even if the perps couldn't have been convicted of attempted terrorism.
“I would include, Follow The Big Ego (don’t know the Latin for that)
I think that Sequor, Sequi, Secutus Ego might work.
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