A new San Diego County laboratory equipped with cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing how health officials monitor community disease outbreaks through wastewater testing.

Wastewater testing has become an important part of public health in the last five years, providing an early warning for infectious diseases and helping to reduce the spread of viruses such as Flu A & ...

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 ...

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 ...

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