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U.S. anti-terror outpost tackles rat-borne virus
KENEMA, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - In a far-flung laboratory in West Africa, American researcher Matt Boisen drops serum from a woman infected with Lassa fever onto a slim strip, testing a new way of diagnosing the deadly virus.
Soon a tell-tale red horizontal bar appears.
Boisen's laboratory in southeastern Sierra Leone is an outpost of the U.S. government's "war on terror," funded by a surge in bio-defense spending since the airplane and anthrax attacks on New York and Washington a decade ago.
American research aims to limit the vulnerability of western interests to biological agents. In the case of Lassa swift and simple diagnosis is seen as critical to doing that...
U.S. anti-terror outpost tackles rat-borne virus
KENEMA, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - In a far-flung laboratory in West Africa, American researcher Matt Boisen drops serum from a woman infected with Lassa fever onto a slim strip, testing a new way of diagnosing the deadly virus.
Soon a tell-tale red horizontal bar appears.
Boisen's laboratory in southeastern Sierra Leone is an outpost of the U.S. government's "war on terror," funded by a surge in bio-defense spending since the airplane and anthrax attacks on New York and Washington a decade ago.
American research aims to limit the vulnerability of western interests to biological agents. In the case of Lassa swift and simple diagnosis is seen as critical to doing that...