Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help.
After all, wastewater contains saliva, urine, feces, shed skin, and more. You could consider it a rich biological sample. Wastewater analysis helped scientists understand how covid was…
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CDC studies show value of nationwide wastewater disease surveillance, as potential funding cut looms
Wastewater testing can alert public health officials to measles infections days to months before cases are confirmed by doctors, researchers said in two studies published Thursday by the…
Detained immigrants at 'Alligator Alcatraz' say there are worms in food and wastewater on the floor
At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don't flush, flooding…
‘Weaponized environmentalism’? A Texas Republican wants to test wastewater for abortion medication
In Texas, a Republican senator just introduced a bill that would require wastewater treatment facilities to do some extra testing—essentially making guidelines more stringent than those…
COVID update: CDC map reveals states with "high" wastewater viral activity
New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over half of U.S. states have either "high" or "very high" levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes…
COVID map update reveals new states with "very high" wastewater activity
There are an increasing number of states across the U.S. where "very high" levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 are present in wastewater. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease…
Cleanup hopes for neighbors of Mexico's 'toilet bowl' wastewater dam
On the banks of a wastewater dam in central Mexico, under a dense cloud of mosquitoes, Yury Uribe is finally seeing hope after spending decades in "environmental hell." The 43-year-old…