Anna Yakos, a clinical laboratory analyst at the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, performs an extraction from a specimen as a part of the influenza testing process. (Photo courtesy of the ...

San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for viruses and bacteria, providing an early snapshot of community health and ...

Public health is a key component of a thriving community. A new way to gauge illnesses could alert healthcare providers even ...

On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the community.

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 ...

HealthDay News — Wastewater surveillance testing for measles can alert public health authorities before and during a measles outbreak, according to research published in the Jan. 15 issue of the US ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the community, with the results published on an online public dashboard.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – The race to track the spread of COVID-19 is taking scientists into the sewers. They’re using wastewater to detect the virus even before people start visiting doctors and hospitals.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. ST. LOUIS – New data from wastewater tests ...