As the international community struggles to mobilize funds and resources to take on the Zika virus outbreak, pandemic experts have asked why the private sector has not played a bigger role in critical elements of response such as diagnostic testing.
But that could change soon.
“We really don’t have a good test and we don’t so far have a lot of private sector partners who are ready to scale up the technology to make diagnostic tests,” Patrick Kachur, medical officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.