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Press release | April 11, 2016
Innovative partnership brings to market new tools for neglected tropical diseases
New tools will support disease elimination for both river blindness and elephantiasis

Seattle and Seoul, April 11, 2016 – PATH and Standard Diagnostics (SD)/Alere announced today the commercial availability of two rapid diagnostic tools for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. Designed for use in disease surveillance, the antibody-based tests are part of a suite of diagnostic innovations intended to support the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of illnesses that affect more than a billion people worldwide…