Engineers compare wastewater 'snapshots' to daylong composite samples and find snapshots lead to bias in testing for the presence of antibiotic-resistant genes. Testing the contents of a simple sample ...

Epidemiologists are monitoring what's in the wastewater as an early warning system for disease outbreaks in the community.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers using wastewater surveillance over conventional indicators have predicted the start of the annual respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season 12 days early, ...

LOWELL — The SARS-CoV-2 virus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, a respiratory illness that first appeared in the U.S. in early 2020, may be trying to make the holidays less merry and bright for ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CARMEL, Ind. — Thousands of COVID-19 cases ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States investigated the source of an enigmatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron ...

A recent study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases assesses correlations between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) load in untreated wastewater with coronavirus ...

The latest wave of COVID-19, driven by the contagious BA.2 and BA.2.12.1 subvariants, is showing signs of retreating, with falling levels of the disease being detected in wastewater. Yale University ...

Toilet bowls reveal much about the health of a community, alerting scientists to coming outbreaks of flu and other seasonal viruses, researchers say. "Just one flush can hold a lot of information," ...