Over 800 sites across the US report coronavirus data from sewage to the CDC. Here’s how this kind of surveillance system works and what it can and can’t tell you.
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You can have this STI without knowing it, or have symptoms, it can affect men and women, and it can be treated with antibiotics. Left untreated, it may cause complications.
A community’s wastewater can predict coronavirus cases that haven’t yet been diagnosed. The quicker that information is known, the better.
Sewage surveillance is one technique that can alert authorities to the presence of a pathogen in the community. An environmental engineer explains the state of the science when it comes to SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers have increasingly turned to DNA sequencing to help identify and track diseases like Ebola.
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Professor, Head of Research Translation and Head of the Genital Mycoplasma and Microbiota Group, Monash University
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Computational biologist, University of Oxford
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Historian, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Notre Dame
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
