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

Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan wastewater for signs of the H5 influenza virus currently sickening dairy cows in at least nine states across the U.S.

You might say COVID-19 testing has gone down the drain. It doesn’t mean it’s no longer a problem. But it’s helping us know how big of a problem. People pass COVID-19 in their feces, which then flows ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the ...

As health officials turn increasingly toward wastewater testing as a means of tracking the spread of H5N1 bird flu among U.S. dairy herds, some researchers are raising questions about the ...

The lab, which expands upon an effort by UCSD and Scripps Research, will use wastewater analysis to detect flu, COVID and RSV ...

This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows avian influenza A virus (bird flu) particles, red/yellow, grown in cultured ...

ROANOKE, Va. – A tool used to track down COVID-19 outbreaks may now be used to help fight the fentanyl crisis in the Commonwealth. Wastewater testing is not a new phenomenon but there was a lot more ...

The launch of March marks a full year free of polio in downstate New York's wastewater. The last test that showed positive for the polio virus was taken in February 2023 in Rockland County. New York ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M – As part of the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent public health order on gun violence and drugs, the state is testing wastewater for opioids. Now we have results from schools ...

As researchers increasingly rely on wastewater testing to monitor the spread of bird flu, some are questioning the reliability of the tests being used. Above, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in ...