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Nearly 80 percent of U.S. households are connected to municipal wastewater collection systems. These sewer systems contain the biological waste, including discharged pathogens, of the human populations they serve. During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance studies successfully tracked the virus shed in feces and provided advanced indications of outbreaks, sometimes weeks ahead of other public health data. This study will examine the value of wastewater surveillance as a tool to trace, prevent, and control the spread of infectious diseases beyond COVID-19.
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Increasing the Utility of Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action: A Phase 2 Report
Consensus Study Report
·2024
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked widespread implementation of wastewater surveillance in communities across the United States to help track the spread of the disease. In contrast to clinical laboratory testing that tracks individual cases of infection, wastewater surveillance provides a way to measure...
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