Wastewater surveillance hit the big time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when officials started using this technique to monitor local virus levels. But my colleagues and I had been ...

These findings suggest that current monitoring strategies, which rely heavily on bacterial indicators alone, may miss critical viral-driven risks and ...

Lessons learned during COVID-19 are helping health officials keep us safer from other pathogens. Wastewater testing, which became widely used during the pandemic, is becoming more common for things ...

The Asian Development Bank, with support from the Government of Austria and research partners including Emory University, piloted wastewater-based epidemiology in Nepal and the Philippines to show how ...

(WSET) — Virginia Tech has secured a $400,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for a wastewater pilot project. This project aims to enhance efforts in identifying pathogens in ...

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a new tool that reveals what pathogens are circulating within a community. Scientists tracking infectious diseases through municipal wastewater testing can use ...

BOISE, Idaho — Boise State University researchers tracked COVID pathogen wastewater data in Ada County for years to establish a computer model to accurately predict local hospitalization and death ...

Testing wastewater to assess the spread of the COVID-19 virus became common and well-publicized during the pandemic, but it has been focused mostly on urban areas. The Appalachian Regional Commission ...

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