Knowing you have malaria without doing any laboratory test
A 25-minute do-it-yourself Urine Malaria Test (UMT) kit has been
released to the Nigeria public by a United States based Company-Fyodor
Biotechnologies Corps through Geneith Pharmaceuticals Nigeria Ltd.
The strip works the same way pregnancy strip works.
The malaria kit is the first-ever non-blood malaria test kit that will
tell in about 25 minutes if a fever is caused by malaria or not.
According to the company, what is required is just a few drops of
urine without any reagent or equipment.
According to Eddy Agbo, Fyodor Biotechnologies Corps Chief Executive
Officer, half a million people die of malaria yearly, stressing that
most malaria deaths occur within 48 hours of fever onset and children
under-five years are particularly vulnerable.
UMT was the first to have its clinical trial validated in Nigeria.
The test process is simple: add patient urine into sample cup provided
in kit; dip and leave UTM strip in the sample for 25 minutes; read
result: one line