Medical Services International Inc. Continues to Generate Interest and Sales With Its Dengue Fever Test Kit
November 09 2006 - 4:48PM
PR Newswire (US)
EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical
Services International Inc. (OTC:MSITF) is pleased to announce that
interest and sales in its VScan Dengue Fever test kit continues to
grow. Major outbreaks of Dengue Fever are occurring throughout
Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia. There are also
outbreaks in the Caribbean. Medical Services currently sells VScan
Dengue Fever test kits into 12 different countries. Our
distributors have arranged for testing to be completed in an
additional 10 countries. The Company has begun negotiations with
several established medical supply companies to become distributors
in Pakistan. The Company projects that it will sell in excess of
1.0 million VScan Dengue Fever test kits over the next year
generating $2.5 million US in revenue. Dengue Fever is spread by
mosquitoes. Control of Dengue Fever is based on early detection.
Some forms of Dengue Fever kill within days of contracting the
disease. Standard laboratories take up to 5 weeks to complete
testing for Dengue Fever. Early detection of Dengue Fever allows
for containment of the virus which stops the spread. The VScan
Dengue Fever test kit gives results in under 20 minutes with an
accuracy greater than 99%. About VScan The VScan rapid test kit is
a single use, disposable, accurate, cost effective, east to use,
test for the screening of HIV 1&2, Hepatitis B&C,
Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue Fever, West Nile, Syphilis, Malaria and
Prostate Cancer. The kits cannot be sold in Canada. Medical
Services International Inc. trades in the United States on the NQB
Pinksheets under the symbol "MSITF". For further information,
please contact Robert Talbot at (780) 430 6363 or
http://www.medicalservicesintl.com/ or
http://www.minerva-biotech.com/ . NOTE: Certain statements in this
press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning
of the Private Securities Act of 1995. Such statements involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause results to differ materially. Such risks, uncertainties and
other factors include but are not limited to new economic
conditions, risk in product development, market acceptance of new
products and continuing product demand, level of competition and
other factors described in Company reports and filings with
regulatory bodies. DATASOURCE: Medical Services International Inc.
CONTACT: Robert Talbot of Medical Services International Inc.,
+1-780-430-6363 Web site: http://www.medicalservicesintl.com/
http://www.minerva-biotech.com/
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