The Fourth Industrial Revolution is no longer the abstract forecast of a faraway future, but a reality we have begun to experience in our everyday lives. From our smartwatches to telemedicine and more complex technological applications, smart technologies are here to stay. During...
The EU Mobile Labs Project has provided one of the first labs against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. A mobile unit was deployed to Guinea in March 2014, at the outbreak's onset. It has provided diagnosis for a large fraction of the samples collected - 3000 during the first 6 months, identifying over 1000 positive cases. Up to 70 samples per day have been processed, with diagnosis available within 4 hours. Two additional mobile labs have been deployed to Nigeria and Liberia.