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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Public health is a key component of a thriving community. A new way to gauge illnesses could alert healthcare providers even ...

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

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — A lab at Ferris State University is using a new wastewater testing program to help forecast possible infectious disease outbreaks on campus and in surrounding communities. 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 ...

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 ...

San Diego County is once again tracking the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses through wastewater testing. KPBS health reporter Heidi de Marco explains why this matters and what the ...