With every rinse of a sink and flush of a toilet, public health is becoming easier to track thanks to a growing practice known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater surveillance. "This is an ...

Wastewater testing has become an important part of public health in the last five years, providing an early warning for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases. U.S. Centers ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

Marin officials are hoping that analysis of local wastewater will become an effective tool in addressing a surge of drug overdoses in the county, just as it was in stemming the spread of COVID-19. In ...

Wastewater surveillance testing for measles can alert public health authorities before and during a measles outbreak.

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Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit. Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — On top of hospitalization and health department data, regional wastewater data across Virginia's seven testing sites point to an increase in the prevalence of COVID-19 in local ...

The launch of March marks a full year free of polio in downstate New York's wastewater. The last test that showed positive for the polio virus was taken in February 2023 in Rockland County. New York ...