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HONG KONG - Scientists from China’s Shantou University and Xiamen University and the University of Hong Kong said in a joint statement that their new rapid diagnostic kits can confirm H5N1 infections in humans within two hours.
Previous tests used to take three to five days and sometimes more than a week. The new technology will give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
"These techniques are convenient, rapid, and are easy for non-specialists to use. The kits could be used directly on the outbreak site," the scientists said.
H5N1 bird flu first broke out in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, infecting 18 people and killing six of them. Studies in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland suggest that H5N1 virus is endemic in poultry in this region.
Among the countries worst hit by bird flu this year are Thailand, where the virus has killed at least 12 people, and Viet Nam, where 20 have died.
A World Health Organization expert warned last month that the H5N1 virus is most likely to cause the next human flu pandemic. Experts fear there will be a repetition of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic thought to have killed more than 20 million people.
The new diagnostic kits can detect the virus or antibodies for the virus in nasal or throat secretions and serum.
"It is critical to control the disease at the very beginning of an outbreak. The rapid diagnostic kits make the early diagnosis possible and efficient," the scientists said.
(Agencies via Xinhua)
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