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 ...

do you ever get used to the smell? And I guess the answer is no. The waste water comes in every day from almost two million people. But you know it's part of the job and you know so we we learn to ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- There are three local wastewater treatment plants participating in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) program to monitor wastewater for COVID-19. They do this ...

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 ...

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, health officials closely monitored sewage samples for signs of the virus to track where it could be circulating. Now, that technique is being used to detect other ...

Health officials hope the additional testing will help identify disease and drug trends more quickly. Measles testing began in mid-July, while opioid and nicotine testing started nine months prior.

Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are joining forces to track, and for the first time in Colorado, ...

University of Minnesota researchers started testing wastewater for monkeypox. It comes after they've checked it for coronavirus levels for more than two years now.Metro Plant Principal Research ...