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

As COVID-19 testing becomes less routine, official case numbers can make outbreaks look smaller than they really are. A ...

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 ...

California’s Central Valley is where many of the people most vulnerable to bird flu live and work, and where the majority of cases in humans have been found. Wastewater surveillance should be a key ...

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

Nassau County is for the first time testing wastewater for opioids and illicit drugs, an expansion of a program that previously just tested for COVID-19. Researchers from Stony Brook University's ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Years after wastewater surveillance gained national attention during the COVID-19 ...

The illicit secrets are in the sewage. Just like how wastewater testing helps communities learn when COVID surges, cities and towns are able to see what drugs are spiking in real time from their ...

Influenza virus binding to a respiratory tract cell. (File photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) San Diego County’s public health lab announced that it has begun publishing the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows avian ...