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 ...
Public health is a key component of a thriving community. A new way to gauge illnesses could alert healthcare providers even ...
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 ...
San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for ...
MINNEAPOLIS --This week, researchers at the University of Minnesota will begin testing metro wastewater for monkeypox. It's an extension of a partnership with the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment ...
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 ...
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 ...
San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the community, with the results published on an online public dashboard.
On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the community.
Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit. Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are ...