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NEWS: Todos Medical Announces First Two Contracts for PCR-based MonkeyPox Testing at CLIA/CAP Clinical Testing Laboratory Provista Diagnostics

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New York, NY, and Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, Aug. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- Todos Medical, Ltd. (OTCQB: TOMDF), a comprehensive medical diagnostics and related solutions company, today announced that its CLIA/CAP-certified laboratory Provista Diagnostics has entered into two contracts to provide PCR-based MonkeyPox testing services. Under the first agreement, Provista will be providing MonkeyPox-related testing to a New Jersey-based medical group that specializes in routine screening of patients presenting with dermatologic complaints. Under the second agreement, the Company is expanding a reference laboratory agreement with a New Jersey-based CLIA lab that is already sending COVID testing samples to add MonkeyPox testing.

While lesion-based testing is the current standard of care according to CDC guidelines, the clinic and laboratory clients have both expressed they are eager to offer the saliva-based sample collection method Provista is currently validating alongside the lesion-based testing as a means of improving the safety of the frontline healthcare workers screening suspected MonkeyPox cases, given the recent report of a healthcare worker in Israel being infected with MonkeyPox after screening a suspected case. The saliva-based testing is undergoing intense research that the Company expects will open up the potential for testing of asymptomatic or very early-stage patients at high risk of severe disease (such as immunocompromised patients) that could result in earlier diagnosis and early intervention with therapeutic drugs such as Tecovirimat (TPOXX). TPOXX is an investigational drug candidate, and currently only available under an expanded access Investigational New Drug (EA-IND) protocol. Flow Health in Los Angeles, CA has already reported successfully diagnosing asymptomatic MonkeyPox patients and referring patients for TPOXX. The Provista MonkeyPox tests are being developed as Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). A recent peer-reviewed article describing strong correlation of the sensitivity of lesion and saliva-based PCR testing was recently published in the journal Eurosurveillance: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.28.2200503

“After making the announcement last week that we were entering the MonkeyPox testing space, we have received multiple requests to establish commercial relationships with physician groups, potential reference lab partners and municipalities,” said Gerald E. Commissiong, President & CEO of Todos Medical. “We are moving rapidly to complete the lesion and saliva-based MonkeyPox tests so that we can begin to service the burgeoning demand and establish Provista as a regional center of excellence for infectious disease and Long COVID testing.”