Now that bird flu has been detected in animals in all 50 states, and nearly 70 cases have been confirmed in people, health officials are racing to find better and more reliable ways to track the virus ...

Mondays are manhole days for Sean Norman. Along with a team of strong-stomached students, Norman packs his pickup truck with 12 vacuum-sized devices and other gear and heads out across the University ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan wastewater for signs of the H5 influenza virus currently sickening dairy cows in at least nine states across the U.S.

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

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in-house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The same disease-tracking technology used to monitor COVID levels in Minnesota wastewater will be put to work in search of other viral bugs. The University of Minnesota Medical School ...

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As wastewater testing continues to prove useful in estimating the spread of the coronavirus, scientists again are using sewage to track the latest public health emergency: monkeypox. In late June — ...