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 ...

Lessons learned during COVID-19 are helping health officials keep us safer from other pathogens. Wastewater testing, which became widely used during the pandemic, is becoming more common for things ...

Wastewater surveillance, a public health tool that expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being used in Utah to help track the spread of another highly contagious disease: measles. The ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is adding testing locations across the state to expand its collection of wastewater to be tested to show the presence of disease or illness ...

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 ...