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 ...

Testing wastewater for COVID-19 provides a better forecast of new COVID hospital admissions than clinical data, according to a Syracuse University research team led by postdoctoral researcher Dustin ...

Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan wastewater for signs of the H5 influenza virus currently sickening dairy cows in at least nine states across the U.S.

Scripps Research will receive $1.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help other countries, many of them in Africa, use the wastewater detection methods it developed in San Diego to ...

As Anne Zink, president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and Alaska’s chief medical officer, told the New Yorker: Alaska is relying on wastewater testing because it ...

As health officials turn increasingly toward wastewater testing as a means of tracking the spread of H5N1 bird flu among U.S. dairy herds, some researchers are raising questions about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As researchers increasingly rely on wastewater testing to monitor the spread of bird flu, some are questioning the reliability of ...