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 $
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