Blood test could spot sepsis early

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Blood test could spot sepsis early: 'Silent killer' may be diagnosed in less than an hour

Sepsis – or septicaemia – is one of the biggest causes of hospital deaths
Scientists found the often lethal blood poisoning leaves 11 tell-tale signs
Discovery raises hope of simple test which could give results in an hour

By Fiona Macrae Science Correspondent For The Daily Mail

Published: 23:38, 13 May 2015 | Updated: 08:53, 14 May 2015

Scientists have cracked the secrets of one of Britain’s biggest killers – paving the way for a lifesaving blood test.

They have shown that sepsis, a potentially fatal type of blood poisoning, leaves 11 tell-tale signs in the blood.

The discovery raises hope of a simple blood test that rapidly picks up the illness, saving some of the 40,000 lives lost to it a year in the UK.

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