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Medical Services
International Begins to
Supply the VScan TB Test Kit
March 14, 2005
Medical Services International Inc. is pleased to announce that
as a result of the contracts just signed in China for its VScan HIV
test kits it has been requested to immediately start supplying its
VScan TB test kits to hospitals. The VScan TB test kit has been given
experimental status in the hospitals so that the TB test kits can
immediately be used in the hospitals. The Company has already applied
for regulatory approval of the VScan TB test kit in China.
The VScan TB test kit only detects "live" TB and as such gives NO
false positives. Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly contagious disease
transmitted through the air contaminated with droplets released from
the lungs. TB strikes people in their most productive years, ages 15
to 44. Three million people die from TB every year, more than the
deaths from all the other infectious diseases combined. Early
diagnosis will significantly reduce this number as TB can be treated.
Published data shows that 35% of HIV patients have undiagnosed TB. The
Company feels that the VScan TB test kit will be as important to the
Company as its HIV test kit.
About VScan ™
The VScan™
rapid test kit is a single use, easy to use, test for the screening of
HIV 1&2, Hepatitis B&C, Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue Fever and West Nile,
Malaria, Syphilis, and Prostate Cancer. The kits cannot be sold in
Canada.
For further information contact:
Robert Talbot at 780-430-6363 or
Bill Whitehead, Jr., 416-822-5883
Medical Services International Inc. trades in the United States on the
NQB Pinksheets under the symbol "MSITF". |