When clinical studies emerged showing that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus in their stool, the sewer seemed like an obvious place to look for it. Wastewater surveillance can be ...

Wastewater testing is an effective way to identify new cases of COVID-19 in nursing homes and other congregate living settings, and it may be particularly useful for preventing outbreaks in college ...

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Wastewater surveillance of infectious diseases is expected work for just about every infectious disease that affects humans, including monkeypox and polio. But more research is needed to apply the ...

As health officials turn increasingly toward wastewater testing as a means of tracking the spread of H5N1 bird flu among U.S. dairy herds, some researchers are raising questions about the ...

COVID-19 cases are relatively low across the country, with even fewer people being hospitalized and dying. But the situation remains uncertain. In the past, new variants have caused sharp surges in ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE)– The University of Tennessee started collecting two types of bodily fluids in hopes to catch a potential COVID-19 outbreak before it starts. Dr. Terry Hazen, Governor’s Chair ...

TULSA, Okla. — Murky, smelly wastewater is what Oklahoma researchers are using to test for COVID. A team is taking the unique approach at the University of Oklahoma. Wastewater testing allows the OU ...

The City of San Luis Obispo tests weekly for COVID-19 in wastewater. “This is everything that comes down the drain. It converges into one spot, and this is where we take our sample,” said Tanner ...

The research offers some of the first clear guidance on the most effective methods to perform testing to detect COVID-19 in wastewater. Wastewater testing is an effective way to identify new cases of ...

As researchers increasingly rely on wastewater testing to monitor the spread of bird flu, some are questioning the reliability of the tests being used. Above, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in ...