{"id":26542,"date":"2014-09-20T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T09:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26542"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:30:27","slug":"china-produces-portable-ebola-testing-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/20\/china-produces-portable-ebola-testing-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"China produces portable Ebola testing kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26588\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ebola-testing-kit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26588\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ebola-testing-kit.jpg\" alt=\"Portable Ebola testing kit (Photo courtesy of Xinhua News via Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"900\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ebola-testing-kit.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ebola-testing-kit-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable Ebola testing kit (Photo courtesy of Xinhua News via Philippine News Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEIJING &#8212; A Chinese health researcher said on Friday that China has successfully produced portable kits to help with Ebola virus testing.<\/p>\n<p>The kits use a diagnostic method based on viral RNA detection. They will be easier to use compared to lab testing, according to Li Dexin, a research fellow of the National Institute For Viral Disease Control and Prevention under the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese researchers have worked with the France-based Pasteur Institute and conducted tests on the product.<\/p>\n<p>China has the ability to test for the Ebola virus through viral RNA, antigen and antibody detection methods, which will also be used in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>A 59-member Chinese laboratory team departed for Sierra Leone on Tuesday to help West African countries contain the Ebola epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>As there is no effective vaccine or specific treatment to deal with the disease so far, early diagnosis is very important, Li said.<\/p>\n<p>The new products are expected to significantly help the prevention and control of the disease both in West African countries and China, the researcher said.<\/p>\n<p>Li said China has investigated over 80 cases of suspected Ebola patients and infection has been ruled out in most of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; A Chinese health researcher said on Friday that China has successfully produced portable kits to help with Ebola &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,37,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-health","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}