Hong Kong - currently takes several days to diagnose a person is exposed to bird flu virus or not. But later only take several hours to ensure the diagnosis.The hope came from the Hong Kong team of scientists has been formed to develop a rapid test bird flu virus (swine flu).
The researchers in Hong Kong play a big role in finding and make sure how to handle SARS, the virus that spread quickly shut off in 2003 and killed more than 900 people. Hong Kong is the second highest region after China with SARS.
Thomas Tsang of Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection said, the government and Hong Kong joined the university to develop a rapid diagnostic flu test pigs by using the genetic information of viruses from the World Health Organization WHO alias.
"We will review the information, including genetiknya order, and we will be able to produce a test," said Tsang as dilansir News.com.au, Tuesday (28/4/2009).
According to Dr. Malik Peiris of the University of Hong Kong, is expected to quickly test ready in time sepekan. "We have done this repeatedly with many other viruses so I do not see this as a big problem," said one researcher as well as experts who find the SARS virus.
Kekhawatirkan appear at this time that the outbreak of swine flu will become a widespread global outbreak, or pandemic. So far cases of swine flu has been confirmed in the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand. However, only the soul of the victim occurred in Mexico with about 149 people died and about 1,600 people infected with this virus.
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