Okay, I'm happy to start. I know you have a time limit and I'm not going to give you a science lecture today.
The reality is that we can measure your immune response to the virus, which is an antibody, and we can do it with what we call an ELISA, and Dr. Germain alluded to that, but there are now new generations of ELISA, called Luminex or luminescence ELISAs, which have a higher degree of sensitivity. In other words, if I look on the floor there may be a tack there. I can't see it. If I have a microscope I'll find it. It's that kind of phenomenon.
The luminescence assays for serology will reduce the window from the time the person is exposed until they mount a response from 21 days back to 14, but that's not good enough. Now we know that when the person becomes infected there is an infectious virus and we can amplify that. We can use a technique whereby we can take blood out of the patient and we can do it in a four-hour period, in a timely period where it could become practical. It costs, so you'd have to talk to Dr. Sher about instituting this. He's your representative. We could do either the DNA, which means the part of the genome of the virus, or we could do the RNA, which is also part of the genome, and using those techniques we would eliminate almost to zero. Dr. Wainberg in Montreal and other people have said you wouldn't need a history anymore; you would just be able to detect the genome.