How Wastewater Surveillance Can Serve As A Long-Term Public Health Tool

By Megan Simonian

First COVID-19, then monkeypox, and now polio. Communities across the U.S. are constantly grappling with emerging public health challenges and how to appropriately respond via methods such as vaccine distribution, clinical testing, and wastewater surveillance.

Explore how wastewater surveillance can be used to anonymously analyze the spread of disease via testing community sewage.