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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego County health officials announced Wednesday that are launching a new tool to monitor the spread of disease, and it comes from an unexpected source: wastewater. For ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Years after wastewater surveillance gained national attention during the COVID-19 ...

Consistent, widespread testing of the community’s wastewater for COVID-19 has been long-awaited as traditional, public-health metrics have struggled to fully capture the spread of the virus in the ...

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.

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

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been charged with falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test. Tennie White, owner ...

Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.

A University of Wyoming laboratory’s wastewater tests are being used to help determine COVID-19 trends in the state. The lab is testing wastewater from six Wyoming communities as part of a larger ...

Consistent, widespread testing of the community’s wastewater for COVID-19 has been long-awaited as traditional public health metrics have struggled to fully capture the spread of the virus in the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been convicted on federal charges of falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test.