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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – The race to track the spread of COVID-19 is taking scientists into the sewers. They’re using wastewater to detect the virus even before people start visiting doctors and hospitals.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – New data from wastewater tests ...

Consistent, widespread testing of the community’s wastewater for COVID-19 has been long-awaited as traditional, public-health metrics have struggled to fully capture the spread of the virus in the ...

To better understand infectious diseases at the community level, wastewater in Cary could soon be tested for Respiratory Syncytial Virus, monkeypox and other viruses. The Town of Cary has extended its ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been charged with falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test. Tennie White, owner ...

Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.

A University of Wyoming laboratory’s wastewater tests are being used to help determine COVID-19 trends in the state. The lab is testing wastewater from six Wyoming communities as part of a larger ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been convicted on federal charges of falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test.