Wherever people are confronted with serious threats and a lack of solutions there is a potential market in false hope Dr Gamal Shiha demonstrates the prototype of a device that he claims can remotely detect the hepatitis C virus. Photograph: Patrick Kingsley/Guardian A new device that supposedly detects diseases remotely is being promoted. According to an excited report earlier this week in the Guardian, about a demonstration of the device in an Egyptian hospital, its developers hope it will first be used to detect swine flu and hepatitis C, and later other diseases. What is being plugged here is hope and nothing more. The device looks like a car radio aerial attached to a handle. It is said...
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