Ebola, dengue or yellow fever? $5 paper test can help in diagnosis in remote areas
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#HQ8T)
When a fever strikes in a developing area, the immediate concern may be: Is it the common flu or something much worse that requires quarantine? To facilitate diagnosis in remote, low-resource settings, researchers have developed a paper-based device that changes color, depending on whether the patient has Ebola, yellow fever or dengue. The test takes ["]