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Sat, 2014-11-01 22:07 — mike kraft
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Nov. 1, 2014
By Colin Freeman
Britain has pledged £20 million to build three new Ebola testing laboratories in Sierra Leone, a move that will save lives by slashing the time required to tell whether a patient has the virus.
Photo: Xinhua News Agency/REX
At present, the sheer number of cases is overwhelming the ability of testing labs to cope, with a wait of up to five days or more for results to come back.
The building of the new labs is expected to reduce that time to a 24-hour turn around, meaning that patients who later get the all-clear do not have to spend several days waiting in treatment centres where they might be at risk of infection.
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