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Are you willing to hazard a guess how long it will take to get material analyzed to determine which of your categories this is in?

• cmriversepi 2y ago
  The first round of test results should come in Friday or this weekend. The longer it goes undiagnosed, the more we tip into categories 2 and 3.
  • etiam 2y ago
    Thanks. So basically, if it's any of numerous reasonably well-known but very local diseases a fluid's probably going to go colored in some field test kit and say which one, else it could be something known (and often of known substantial concern for large-scale contagion) but too rare or understudied to have cheap robust quick tests yet so that has to be shipped to a real lab (probably with very high biosecurity rating), and if the lab doesn't recognize what they're seeing in their electron microscope and has to do fundamental research first to get a good biochemical profiling it's something truly expanding the boundaries of known infectious pathology? Something like that?