The ongoing hantavirus outbreak carries disturbing echoes of the early days of COVID: people falling ill on a cruise ship from a relatively unknown pathogen, with no validated test available to ...

A lab at the University of Nebraska has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing cruise ship passengers returning to the US. As ...

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According to the experts, the Altona RT-PCR kit is the real star and is highly standardized. It rarely misses Ebola cases when proper protocols are followed.

The Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense) outbreak in DR Congo has already registered over 300 confirmed cases, including more than 40 deaths (as of May 31, 2026).1 Transmission has been ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently doesn’t have a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test to detect the Andes strain of the hantavirus in patients, as 10 people who ...

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Abnormal stress test results may suggest an underlying heart condition, such as coronary artery disease, or a blockage in the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Failing a stress test means you can ...

A nuclear stress test, also called myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) or a thallium stress test, uses a radioactive tracer to show how blood flows through your heart muscles during exercise and at ...

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