New blood test detects Ebola within minutes
A new on-the-spot blood test can predict the deadly Ebola disease within minutes, according to results from a patient trial which also suggest the method is as accurate as the most widely-used laboratory-based test. The study is the first to show that a point-of-care Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) test is faster than and as sensitive as a […]
The Healthy Dose – Ebola, Part 3
By Parth Dwivedi Recapping everything we have covered thus far, there are five different species of Ebolavirus, each with different characteristics. Once it infects a human host, the virus attacks the immune system and causes water loss, bleeding and organ failure. Ebola has surfaced in the news before, although more recently an ongoing […]
