The State Hygienic Lab in Coralville now can test wastewater for influenza, which gives public health officials advance warning of a spike in their community before positive flu tests show up at ...

SAGINAW, MI – Saginaw Valley State University chemistry professor Tami Sivy and her two student lab assistants testing wastewater in the Saginaw Bay region for early signs of the coronavirus. SVSU ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF) -- A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley launched a pop-up lab this month to test wastewater from throughout the Bay Area for the novel coronavirus, 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 ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- In a BioSafety Level 2 lab at U.C. Berkeley, scientists spend all day looking at wastewater. At first read, it may sound gross but it is the work of a lifetime for scientists ...

San Diego County is once again tracking the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses through wastewater testing. KPBS health reporter Heidi de Marco explains why this matters and what the ...

New county lab uses wastewater testing to track flu, RSV and COVID-19 outbreaks, delivering results in two weeks with state-of-the-art technology. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A new San Diego County laboratory ...

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 ...

Sampling Truckee Meadows wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 virus found a very clear upward spike approximately seven days before the spike appeared in the community in the form of people testing positive ...

Twice a week, mathematics professor Andrea Bruder squats in the sewage tunnels below South Hall, a mostly freshman dorm at Colorado College. She wears head-to-toe protective gear and holds a plastic ...