{"id":1561,"date":"2026-06-12T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:38:16","slug":"how-a-utah-company-is-aiding-the-fight-against-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"How a Utah company is aiding the fight against Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>BioFire Defense developed test panels that can detect five different strains of Ebola, plus other diseases.<\/li>\n<li>The test panels are available in the U.S. and shipped to clinics across Africa and Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare providers take a blood sample from a patient&#8217;s arm, then get results for 16 different tests in less than an hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You might not think Utah has much connection to the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda right now. But BioFire Defense in Murray, Utah \u2014 a division of a larger diagnostic company \u2014 has been working to detect Ebola strains for the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=1559\">University of Utah finalizes private equity deal with Otro Capital to fund athletic efforts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014 when the Zaire strain of Ebola was rampant, \u201cthere became a need for more directed diagnostics towards tropical diseases\u201d like malaria, dengue and Ebola, according to Matt Scullion, vice president of business development at BioFire Defense. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the company started working with the U.S. military to create a test panel that could detect these deadly diseases. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. military wanted a diagnostic tool that was in their toolbox to identify the diseases and then potentially treat them,\u201d Scullion said. The U.S. was worried about military personnel being exposed to diseases like Ebola while deployed and then bringing them into the country.<\/p>\n<p>After eight years of development, Scullion said the product was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023, then the company began marketing and distributing the panels to hospitals and setting up \u201cclinical evaluation sites across the globe.\u201d Scullion said these sites are in Africa, Southeast Asia and Central America. <\/p>\n<h3>Finding the root of the problem<\/h3>\n<p>Tropical diseases all present similar symptoms at first, so it\u2019s hard to tell what disease you\u2019re dealing with, according to Scullion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA patient will come in with a very high fever, but nothing else that differentiates Ebola from malaria,\u201d he said. \u201cFundamentally, you want to make sure that you don\u2019t stick a malaria patient in with all the Ebola patients, because if they didn\u2019t have Ebola before, they\u2019ll have Ebola after they\u2019ve been exposed to other patients for a period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel tests from BioFire Defense help healthcare providers know which patients have what disease and where to send them and how to treat them, hopefully slowing the spread. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the advantage of our panel. We can test for more than just Ebola, and be able to diagnose these people with very high fevers and differentiate between the different diseases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can test for the four different known strains of Ebola that infect humans and one that <i>could <\/i>infect humans.&#8221; Scullion said this includes Bundibugyo, the strain causing the current outbreaks in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=1557\">The opportunity in the Pentagon\u2019s about-face on Latter-day Saints and Christianity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scullion said the demand for the panel tests is high right now because of conditions in Congo and Uganda. \u201cWe have the manufacturing capability, and we\u2019re ramping up our manufacturing of these tests to meet the critical need right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>How it works <\/h3>\n<p>The testing begins by taking a blood sample from the patient\u2019s arm. With that sample, the technician performs a series of steps and then processes it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn less than an hour, it comes back with the results\u201d for 16 different tests from that one patient sample, Scullion said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difficult part about the Bundibugyo outbreak is there are no vaccines or therapeutics\u201d specifically for it, he said. That\u2019s why the diagnostic test is so important. \u201cYou can isolate potential patients, trace their contacts and then treat everything appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per Scullion, \u201cIt\u2019s a very opportune time for us to actually employ these tests and use them, and do some good in these areas, as well as prepare the U.S. for anything that might come in. So, for us, it\u2019s a source of pride to be able to support these things quickly, and being able to react to them, because it\u2019s what we\u2019ve been preparing for for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Ebola case count <\/h3>\n<p>As of June 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 676 confirmed cases of Ebola and 136 confirmed deaths in Congo.<\/p>\n<p>They also reported 19 confirmed cases and two confirmed deaths in Uganda, as well as one probable case and one probable death as of June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s website says there are \u201cno Ebola casesassociated with this outbreak&#8221; in the United States to date, \u201cand the risk to the general public remains low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=1555\">Inside the $100K \u2018hardcore conservative\u2019 campaign to oust Utah\u2019s Senate president<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Utah-based company ships test panels to Africa that can detect Ebola strains including Bundibugyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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