“Mali had a suspect but it tested negative.”
The faster ELISA test has a very high rate of false negatives, and I don’t believe they have the results back on the blood sent out for the other test.
Also of note- the man who died in Jeddah had been on a medical mission, serving as an ER doctor in Sierra Leon.
I saw them doing testing somewhere in Africa that was not an ELISA. I believe it was a rapid test, perhaps agglutination.
The quality of testing is something I have been very interested in - obviously they are not doing PCR in Africa.