In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

Anna Yakos, a clinical laboratory analyst at the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, performs an extraction from a specimen as a part of the influenza testing process. (Photo courtesy of the ...

Apr. 7—CNN reported this week that interest has been growing for months in using wastewater surveillance to monitor COVID-19 in a community. Joe Schepers, executive director of the Regional Water ...

Three viruses continue to circulate at elevated levels across Wisconsin, according to the DHS.

Wastewater surveillance testing for measles can alert public health authorities before and during a measles outbreak.

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — A lab at Ferris State University is using a new wastewater testing program to help forecast possible infectious disease outbreaks on campus and in surrounding communities. The ...

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

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 ...

Each Tuesday, a team of scientists at the University of Alaska Anchorage spend much of their day carefully extracting and testing microscopic strands of ribonucleic acid found in a jug of wastewater ...