| Updated Mon, April 24th 2017 at 00:00 GMT +3Malaria experts meet in Narok tomorrow for the World Malaria Day with new data showing the disease still remains a major killer in the country. The Narok event is historic because it comes at the end of the country's most ambitious, National Malaria Strategy 2009-2017. But despite the gloom malaria experts meeting in Nairobi this morning, ahead of the Narok event, are excited by a new revolutionary malaria testing technology. "Unlike the current Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs), the new molecular technology will be able to detect low-level infections even in healthy people," says a CDC research brief. Medical experts say the technology; Illumigene Malaria LAMP, manufactured by Meridian Bioscience of the US may do for malaria what the mobile phone has done for telecommunication.

Source: Standard Digital April 23, 2017 19:52 UTC