The World Health Organisation has approved a blood test that can give a result on if a patient has Ebola within minutes not hours. Existing tests can take 12-24 hours to get a result which can cause problems with care management in this period. This new test can give a result in just 15 minutes. Ebola has killed nearly 10,000 people and by getting a faster result, recourses can be allocated better to the actual cases.
