With every rinse of a sink and flush of a toilet, public health is becoming easier to track thanks to a growing practice known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater surveillance. "This is an ...

Now that bird flu has been detected in animals in all 50 states, and nearly 70 cases have been confirmed in people, health officials are racing to find better and more reliable ways to track the virus ...

Wastewater surveillance, a public health tool that expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being used in Utah to help track the spread of another highly contagious disease: measles. 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 ...

FILE - A professor collects sewage samples from a dorm at Utah State University Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Logan, Utah., to monitor wastewater in hopes of stopping coronavirus outbreaks before they ...

Marin officials are hoping that analysis of local wastewater will become an effective tool in addressing a surge of drug overdoses in the county, just as it was in stemming the spread of COVID-19. In ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is adding testing locations across the state to expand its collection of wastewater to be tested to show the presence of disease or illness ...

Influenza virus binding to a respiratory tract cell. (File photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) San Diego County’s public health lab announced that it has begun publishing the ...