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.

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 ...

Northern Arizona University wanted to test campus wastewater for traces of COVID-19, a process that can serve as an early-warning system for new outbreaks. One way to do that is with a composite ...

COVID-19 cases have slowed down over the past several months, but it is important that campus safety officials do everything in their power to keep the virus out of the classroom and off of campus to ...

REPORTER: THE BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 CONTINUES ABOVE GROUND IN THE FORM OF VACCINATIONS AND WEARING MASKS, THERE IS ALSO A BATTLE BELOW GROUND FOR DATA FROM WASTEWATER THAT COULD HELP PREVENT FUTURE ...

A sign, seen on Wednesday, marks the location of the John M. Asplund Wastewater Treatment Facility near Point Woronzof in Anchorage. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The Alaska Division of Public ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) is closely monitoring a positive wastewater sample for measles virus. This marks the first wastewater detection of the virus in the ...

In a recent study published in the PLoS ONE journal, researchers assessed the feasibility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) surveillance using wastewater sampling. Study: ...

The U.S. continues to exhibit signs that COVID-19 upticks may be emerging, across the country, as the presence of the omicron subvariant, BA.2, steadily increases. Nearly 150 wastewater sites, which ...

Engineers compare wastewater 'snapshots' to daylong composite samples and find snapshots lead to bias in testing for the presence of antibiotic-resistant genes. Testing the contents of a simple sample ...