Opinion: What Ebola and Marburg are teaching us about the next pandemic

As the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak spreads across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, global attention has understandably focused on the absence of licensed vaccines and therapeutics for this rare species of Ebola virus. Yet one of the outbreak’s most consequential failures has received far less attention: our inability to rapidly and reliably diagnose the pathogen in the first place.Read the rest…