South Africa: New way to test kids for TB delayed by SA health lab cyberattack

Plans to kick off a study this month to test a new way for finding tuberculosis (TB) in kids – by looking at their stool samples (poop) – have been put on hold after a cyberattack in late June shut down the National Health Laboratory Service’s computer systems, but Farzana Ismail, a clinical microbiologist with the lab network, says it “remains a priority”.

Because of the IT problems at the country’s public pathology lab service, test results now have to be processed and…