Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two years of wastewater samples in a Belgian study corresponded with clinical testing rates for 13 respiratory ...

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.

Issmat Kassem, a microbiologist and assistant professor at the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety, has been worried for a while about antibiotic resistance. His research focuses on what he ...

A new study from Rice University and the Houston Health Department shows that wastewater monitoring is an effective way to detect viral outbreaks in schools. The study measured weekly levels of ...

COVID-19 virus detected in wastewater sampling sites is on the rise, according Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. The trend comes as the country recently began lifting mask ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Wastewater sampling across the nation seems to be showing some alarming COVID numbers, even as pandemic cases plunge across the country. Marshall University scientists say ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon and many states in the United States have been using wastewater sampling to figure out how COVID-19 is spreading in a community for some time now. But right now, wastewater ...

A measles outbreak across the state line has already led to more than 300 cases of the highly contagious disease.

Coronavirus levels in Twin Cities' wastewater increased 36% over the past week, defying other signs of pandemic progress in Minnesota and also revealing the presence of the BA.2.75 variant in the ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Wastewater analysis data from communities across the state is helping experts in Nebraska get a clearer picture of the evolution of COVID-19 variants these last 14 months. The ...

Possible evidence of bird flu has been detected in three cities in Maricopa County, Arizona—Phoenix, Surprise and Tempe—through wastewater sampling. The Maricopa County Department of Public Health ...