Opinion: How Next Generation Technology Can Stop Ebola Today And Future Pandemics Tomorrow

FORBES   by Anita Goel (chairman and CEO of the Nanobiosym Research Institute and Nanobiosym Diagnostics.)                Dec. 30, 2014

Today, even the world’s best hospitals rely upon a thermometer, a 400-year old technology, to decide who to quarantine for Ebola. The ambiguity in our current approaches to diagnosing Ebola has resulted in over 1400 Ebola suspects in the U.S. today who still have not received a definitive diagnosis.

Congress is poised to commit up to $6 billion to fight Ebola.  I believe that the United States can win this global war on Ebola, but we must invest our resources wisely to significantly upgrade our diagnostic technologies and capabilities, bolstering the heroic efforts of those fighting this viral enemy on the front lines, whether in African villages or in American hospitals.

There are hi-tech solutions available today (leaving the thermometer behind) that can revolutionize how we stop the spread of Ebola and provide a quantum leap in our current capabilities for responding to such global pandemic threats.
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