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US Agencies Join Forces To Accelerate Development Of Emergency Diagnostics

 
• By Sue Darcey

Three US health-care agencies – FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – set up a “Tri-Agency Task Force for Emergency Diagnostics” to rapidly push effective emergency-use tests into the field when outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, Influenza or similar health threats occur in the US or globally.

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A US "Tri-Agency Task Force for Emergency Diagnostics" that launched on Feb. 26 will draw on the expertise of FDA, CMS and CDC to quickly develop innovative diagnostics to detect and respond to strains of emerging viruses and pathogens globally.

“We’re all in this together. It takes a sustained, robust and globally-coordinated effort to protect our nation and the global...

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