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Community Wastewater-based Infectious Disease Surveillance

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. households are connected to municipal wastewater collection systems. These sewer systems contain the biological waste, including discharged pathogens, of the human ...
Yonkers Times

Portable Wastewater Samplers: 10 Features You Can’t Compromise On

Wastewater monitoring plays a critical role in protecting public health, maintaining regulatory compliance, and improving ...
The Conversation

Testing sewage has helped track COVID – soon it could reveal much more about the UK’s health

It may not feel like it when you’re swabbing your throat, but improving how we test for diseases is one of the big positives of COVID. Applying methods developed for COVID to other diseases could ...
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Utah uses wastewater surveillance to track measles spread, but not in some regions

Wastewater surveillance, a public health tool that expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being used in Utah to help track the spread of another highly contagious disease: measles. The ...