Wastewater-based surveillance has gained wide recognition throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor trends of SARS-CoV-2. While the current approaches focus on a single pathogen at a time, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The best time of day to collect a wastewater sample is in the morning. That's according to Raul Gonzalez, an environmental scientist who's an expert on how people's hygiene ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...

Wastewater surveillance can become a cornerstone of US public health infrastructure. The National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) was launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy and stigmatize neighborhoods.

Avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, which spread to cattle and infected 14 people this year, was detected using virome sequencing in the wastewater of 10 Texas cities by researchers at UTHealth Houston and ...

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zymo Research Corporation, a global leader in molecular biology and pathogen detection, is proud to sponsor the Microbes in Wastewater Symposium 2026, ...