Epidemics of disease caused by highly infectious pathogens are particularly devastating in developing countries with limited laboratory infrastructure and trained medical staff.
The 2014 Ebola epidemic began with a series of patients misdiagnosed with malaria and typhoid fever. Health officials, suspicious of the spate of cases, sent blood samples to European laboratories for analysis — three months after the initial outbreak, tests confirmed the disease as Ebola...
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