Most people dont know that there is an Ebola screening machine; it is currently available to the U.S military, and the military is using it now. So why arent U.S. hospitals using it? Because government guidelines prevent hospitals from doing so. According to military news site Defense One: Its a toaster-sized box called FilmArray, produced by a company called BioFire, a subsidiary of bioMerieux and its capable of detecting Ebola with a high degree of confidence -- in under an hour. Incredibly, it was present at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital when Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan walked through the door, complaining of fever and he had just come from Liberia. Duncan was sent home, but even still, FDA guidelines prohibited the hospital from using the machine to screen for Ebola.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:24:05 +0000
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