COVID-19
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UB Researchers Find Link Between Medicine In Wastewater, Covid-19 Outbreaks
7/22/2022
The Covid-19 pandemic showed that wastewater can tell us a lot about public health – and University at Buffalo researchers have found that it can tell us even more.
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Awash In Potential: Wastewater Provides Early Detection Of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
7/21/2022
Writing in the journal Nature, scientists at the University of California San Diego and Scripps Research, along with local and federal public health officials, describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community -- a key step in public health interventions in advance of COVID-19 case surges.
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Scientists Develop Tools For Early Detection Of SARS-CoV-2 Variants In Wastewater
7/7/2022
La Jolla, CA- It can be a bit smellier than other ways of monitoring COVID-19, but analyzing wastewater is a cheaper, faster and more accurate way for public health officials and researchers to detect rising cases.
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Monitoring COVID-19: Could Medicine Found In Wastewater Provide An Early Warning?
6/30/2022
In a pilot project exploring ways to monitor COVID-19, University at Buffalo scientists hunted for pharmaceuticals and viral RNA simultaneously in wastewater in Western New York.
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London, UK, Finds Traces Of Polio Virus In Wastewater
6/29/2022
Demonstrating the importance and potential of diligent wastewater analysis, a strain of poliovirus has been detected in buried infrastructure below London, England.
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Wastewater Monitoring Took Off During The COVID-19 Pandemic — And Here’s How It Could Help Head Off Future Outbreaks
5/9/2022
A community’s sewage holds clues about its COVID-19 burden. Over the course of the pandemic, wastewater surveillance has become an increasingly popular way to try to understand local infection trends.
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U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Selects Biobot Analytics To Expand National Wastewater Monitoring
5/9/2022
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has selected Biobot Analytics to expand the agency's National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS), an integral part of President Biden's plan to fight Covid-19 and prepare the country for future pandemics.
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A Perilous Choice: COVID Patients Or Safe Drinking Water?
4/20/2022
In August 2021, as Florida's hospitals were filling up with COVID-19 patients, the mayor of Orlando pleaded with local residents to reduce water use to free up liquid oxygen to provide life support for victims of the pandemic.
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Kando Wastewater Surveillance | WBE
4/11/2022
Wastewater-based epidemiology is only as good as the data that powers it. Optimizing your data enhances decision-making capabilities.
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Governor Ivey Announces Funds Transferred To ADEM For Statewide Water And Sewer Projects
4/1/2022
Governor Kay Ivey announced today that the Alabama Department of Finance has signed an agreement with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) that officially provides $225M in COVID-19 relief funds to ADEM for grants to provide or improve water and sewer services to residents across the state.