Rapid Paper-Strip Test For Ebola In Sight, University of Illinois Study

The new test is featuring at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) that is taking place this week in Boston, MA.

The tool works like a home pregnancy test and should help doctors assess potential disease outbreaks, according to the developers.

Standard approaches for testing viral infections accurately and reliably require technical expertise and expensive equipment such as Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

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