SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego County health officials announced Wednesday that are launching a new tool to monitor the spread of disease, and it comes from an unexpected source: wastewater. For ...
Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.
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 ...
Anna Yakos, a clinical laboratory analyst at the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, performs an extraction from a specimen as a part of the influenza testing process. (Photo courtesy of the ...
Each Tuesday, a team of scientists at the University of Alaska Anchorage spend much of their day carefully extracting and testing microscopic strands of ribonucleic acid found in a jug of wastewater ...
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Verily, a precision health technology company, announced a significant expansion of its wastewater surveillance program into the United Kingdom through an exclusive ...
The City of San Luis Obispo tests weekly for COVID-19 in wastewater. “This is everything that comes down the drain. It converges into one spot, and this is where we take our sample,” said Tanner ...
San Francisco International Airport has launched a program with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to test wastewater from airplanes for traces of emerging coronavirus variants. Traces ...