test kit useless, page-6

from article today on new.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18322028-23109,00.html

"Mr Chretien said developing countries often lacked the surveillance facilities essential for detecting and containing diseases."

Jean-Paul Chretien ,US Department of Defence Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS)

further...
"We cannot be optimistic that a deadly and easily transmissible disease emerging in sub-Saharan Africa, or a rural part of Asia or South America, would be detected, characterised and contained before spreading," Mr Chretien and his colleagues said.

iho...
i suspect that the inevitable outbreak will stem from the above scenario.
From areas too poor to afford testing and detection kits.

all too late... it will then be a matter of path labs having facilities to bulk process blood samples. A different machine to that of a portable test kit.

then it's the treatment rather than detection that will spin $