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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Wastewater surveillance of infectious diseases is expected work for just about every infectious disease that affects humans, including monkeypox and polio. But more research is needed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marin officials are hoping that analysis of local wastewater will become an effective tool in addressing a surge of drug overdoses in the county, just as it was in stemming the spread of COVID-19. In ...

New Covid-19 infections are no longer tracked or reported as closely as they were during the public health emergency. Instead, US officials now focus on testing the contents of Americans’ wastewater ...

A handful of Bay Area communities are now turning to their wastewater to track their opioid crisis. The same tech that is being used to track COVID will now help them track fentanyl and meth in hopes ...

COVID-19 cases have slowed down over the past several months, but it is important that campus safety officials do everything in their power to keep the virus out of the classroom and off of campus to ...

Influenza virus binding to a respiratory tract cell. (File photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) San Diego County’s public health lab announced that it has begun publishing the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The state started testing wastewater at some metro high schools for illicit drugs as part of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s current public health order. They released the initial ...