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It is from the Conscrits’ refuge, holding a hot chocolate in our hands, that we were able to witness the sun set over the Tré-la-Tête glacier, one of the biggest glaciers of the Mont-Blanc.
Credits: Estelle Vincent

Poor sanitary conditions allow epidemics such as cholera to spread quite easily through infected fluids. By observing the current situation in Yemen, this infection is definitely an urgent matter to which too little attention is paid.
Different kinds of medical diagnosis exist but their specificity is far from being optimum. In fact, Vibrio Cholerae is the bacteria responsible for cholera. The tricky thing is that there are only two serogroups of Vibrio Cholerae O1 and O139 that are responsible for epidemics of cholera while the others provoke diarrheas, abscess or septicemia.
This is why we are going to design a pathogen sensitive detector, allowing an easier and more specific diagnostic : SnapLab, our portable kit that will detect cholera with a smartphone.
The greatest advantage of this device will be its capability to communicate the results to its user and to map the cases of cholera. That way, we will be able to know which area is the most affected by the epidemic. Going forward, this kind of device will be replicable for different pathogens, thus allowing to widen the spectrum of this kit’s use.

We estimate

1,3 to 4 million

cases of cholera worldwise.

It causes

21000 to 143000

deaths in a year.