Coronavirus trackers collect wastewater samples in August 2020 from a University of Arizona dormitory, a monitoring approach the school still uses. (Cheney Orr/Bloomberg) The first clues appear in ...

Siena College Environmental Studies senior, Jennifer Guzman, disinfects her boots after collecting wastewater from a sewer line outside a dorm on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, in Loudonville, N.Y. Monitoring ...

As the newest dominant COVID subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 emerge, scientists are looking beyond traditional methods to track its spread. One important tool in their arsenal is wastewater surveillance.

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - The program to track levels of COVID 19 in communities by testing wastewater is now up and running, and expanding. Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah reports that sampling has ...

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced everyone to the world of PCR tests and lateral flow tests but since then, a different type of testing has quietly been gaining momentum. Wastewater testing is a ...

Consistent, widespread testing of the community’s wastewater for COVID-19 has been long-awaited as traditional, public-health metrics have struggled to fully capture the spread of the virus in the ...

ST. PAUL — The University of Minnesota is working with public health officials and local agencies to begin screening wastewater for monkeypox and polio. Researchers working have already been testing ...

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Since early 2020, New York City has become a pioneer of wastewater surveillance, a method of tracking diseases in sewage that gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. But city agencies are not ...

Contracts are in place for a project that will test the wastewater of public schools in Missouri for signs of fentanyl and ...

The University of Minnesota is working with public health officials and local agencies to begin screening wastewater for monkeypox and polio. Researchers have already been testing ways to screen for ...