Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.

How can we watch for flare-ups of COVID-19 as the pandemic continues but infection rates decrease? The answers could be in wastewater and in the air. This story is a sidebar to the article "Healthy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Verily, a precision health technology company, announced a significant expansion of its wastewater surveillance program into the United Kingdom through an exclusive ...

Not everyone gets tested for COVID-19, but everyone poops. That’s the premise behind wastewater epidemiology, one of the areas of research that has been pivotal in understanding the pandemic. With the ...

New county lab uses wastewater testing to track flu, RSV and COVID-19 outbreaks, delivering results in two weeks with state-of-the-art technology. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A new San Diego County laboratory ...

The State Hygienic Lab in Coralville now can test wastewater for influenza, which gives public health officials advance warning of a spike in their community before positive flu tests show up at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new county lab uses wastewater testing to track flu, RSV and COVID-19 outbreaks, delivering results in two weeks with ...