Study Shows Potential for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Monitor Monkeypox
Gaps in current clinical testing availability for monkeypox and the lag from infection to symptoms suggest the potential utility of ...
Tag: Wastewater Surveillance
Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage: Response Measures Emphasize Wastewater Surveillance and Vaccination Gaps
UK Health Security Agency initiates epidemiological investigation to protect public, who are urged to ensure polio vaccines are up to ...
The Bioethics and Biosecurity Aspects of Targeted Wastewater Surveillance
We should be having public conversations about what information is collected through near-source wastewater surveillance, how and where it is ...
SARS-CoV-2 Levels in Wastewater Correlate with Regional Patient Data
Wastewater-based epidemiology, which represents the collective waste of the human population in a given locale, can detect viral pathogens and ...
Informing Pandemic Decision-Making with Targeted Disease Monitoring
Study led by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends in populations COVID-19 ...
Sewage-Handling Robots Help Predict COVID-19 Outbreaks in San Diego
In earlier days of the COVID-19 pandemic, before diagnostic testing was widely available, it was difficult for public health officials ...
Testing Sewage Can Give Schools and Businesses a Heads-Up on the Spread of COVID-19
November has brought encouraging news about several COVID-19 vaccines. But members of the general public will probably not be vaccinated ...
Sewage Surveillance: Watching Wastewater for SARS-CoV-2
Environmental engineer Kyle Bibby is coordinating a nationwide research network sponsored by the National Science Foundation that aims to help ...
New Cost-Effective Method to Monitor Spread of COVID-19 in Wastewater Systems
From seven methods commonly used to test for viruses in untreated wastewater, an adsorption-extraction technique can most efficiently detect SARS-CoV-2, ...
Researchers Testing Northern Arizona Wastewater for Early Warning of COVID-19 Outbreaks
Scientists at Northern Arizona University are testing wastewater in local communities to help determine the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
Sewage Poses Potential COVID-19 Transmission Risk, Experts Warn
Environmental biologists at the University of Stirling have warned that the potential spread of COVID-19 via sewage "must not be ...
Novel Coronavirus Detected, Monitored in Wastewater
Within weeks of arriving on the world stage, SARS-CoV-2 has managed to encircle the globe, leaving illness, mortality and economic ...
USAMRIID Resumes Full Operations Following Federal Select Agent Program Reinstatement
Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases continue to work on medical countermeasures for the novel ...
Research Halted at USAMRIID Over Biosafety Issues
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the only Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in the Department of ...
USAMRIID Temporarily Halts Activity at BSL-3 and BSL-4 Laboratories
The U.S. Army for Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) has suspended Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) and Biosafety Level ...
Tetra Tech Awarded EPA National Homeland Security Research Contract
Tetra Tech, Inc. recently announced it has been awarded a five-year multiple-award contract worth up to $20 million by the ...
Virginia Tech Develops New Microfluidic Chip for Pathogen Detection
A new process for making a three-dimensional microstructure that can be used in the analysis of cells could prove useful ...
