Now that bird flu has been detected in animals in all 50 states, and nearly 70 cases have been confirmed in people, health officials are racing to find better and more reliable ways to track the virus ...

San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for ...

Last week, to the surprise of many around the country, the University of Arizona announced that it was able to use wastewater testing to mitigate a potential future outbreak of COVID-19. When a sample ...

On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases. U.S. Centers ...

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority's wastewater treatment plant. Hiding deep in the sprawling spiderweb of sewers across Allegheny County is the potential key to unlocking a major public health ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in-house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the ...

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 ...

Perhaps you didn’t bother going to the doctor, or you got results from a home COVID-19 test that doesn’t get shared with the health department. Maybe you didn’t even feel sick enough to realize you ...