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Nature

What toilets can reveal about COVID, cancer and other health threats

Wastewater testing for pathogens, initiated in Hong Kong, helped track and stop COVID-19 outbreaks efficiently. [ more ]

Kqed

1 month ago

San Francisco

San Francisco Gets New Glimpse Into Illicit Drug Use With Wastewater Testing | KQED

Wastewater testing provides insights into the drug usage crisis in San Francisco.

Geographic variations in drug concentrations may not correspond to actual usage levels. [ more ]

Slate Magazine

3 months ago

Public health

Wait, Was That Really the Second-Biggest Wave of COVID?

Wastewater testing data is being used to declare the recent surge in COVID-19 as the second-biggest ever, but it has limitations in making accurate comparisons.

Wastewater testing provides a rough idea of the disease's presence and is a cheaper alternative to widespread testing, but it has limitations due to inconsistent data reporting and sampling from different locations. [ more ]

www.mercurynews.com

3 months ago

Public health

Wastewater tests can find mpox, study finds. Expect more bugs to be tracked that way

Wastewater testing is effective in detecting infectious diseases such as mpox.

Researchers found that wastewater testing had a 32% likelihood of detecting mpox in a population.

Wastewater testing can serve as an early warning system for disease outbreaks. [ more ]

www.berkeleyside.org

4 months ago

East Bay food

Berkeley Wire

BART is saving $394 million on new train cars

COVID cases are spiking in East Bay wastewater [ more ]