On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the ...

HealthDay News — Wastewater surveillance testing for measles can alert public health authorities before and during a measles outbreak, according to research published in the Jan. 15 issue of the US ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

Apr. 7—CNN reported this week that interest has been growing for months in using wastewater surveillance to monitor COVID-19 in a community. Joe Schepers, executive director of the Regional Water ...

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 ...

San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for ...

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 ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the community, with the results published on an online public dashboard.