Today, The World Health Organization confirmed the second case of Ebola Virus Disease...
This is simply an epidemic. African nations are already taking actions to prevent the spread into her territories. Of course Nigeria's Health Ministry have put all surveillance health teams at the borders and ports (air and sea ports) on red alert. Any suspected or actual case of the disease must be reported after established protocol is followed.

However, I recalled that during the last epidemic in Nigeria that saw Patrick Sawyer bringing the disease to us and numerous deaths in and across West Africa, I decided to follow the story keenly even before Nigeria was declared Ebola Free. After Nigeria was declared free by the WHO, a group of researchers invented a solar powered suitcase for prompt Ebola detection and diagnosis.

The mobile suitcase lab is operated with solar power and enables simple on-site diagnostics in remote areas without the need of an equipped laboratory.

The new detection method, a recombinase polymerase amplification technique, shortly RPA, is based on the rapid identification of viral RNA in oral swabs of infected persons at 42 degrees.

The mobile diagnostic kit facilitates detection of Ebola and other infectious diseases directly in the crisis areas. "In future, the diagnostic kit is also to be used for the detection of other viral infections." For example, Dengue virus, Chikungunya virus and Rift Valley fever virus. With this present threat, that future is NOW!!!

An Ebola infection case was detected after 30 minutes. The results of the field study have been published in the current issue of the journal Eurosurveillance.