Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days—or even longer—in sewage and drinking water.
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By taking daily samples from the New Haven-area wastewater treatment plant, researchers have been able to track the progression of COVID-19 up to seven days before the same pattern is reported by compiled testing data from ...
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Switching the painkiller codeine to a prescription-only medicine in 2018 led to a 37 percent overall drop in its consumption across Australia, according to new findings from wastewater sampling published in the journal Addiction.
Dec 20, 2022
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In a sign that exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be playing a role in cancers of the breast, ovary, skin and uterus, researchers have found that people who developed those cancers have significantly higher ...
Sep 18, 2023
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More than a dozen new psychoactive drugs have been detected in 16 countries by an international wastewater surveillance program.
Apr 27, 2023
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A team of researchers at Yale University (with assistance from the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) has found early signs that testing wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 virus RNA can be used to gauge early COVID-19 ...
Wastewater treatment plants are unwittingly helping to spread antibiotic resistance, say scientists.
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Even a very good wastewater treatment plant can't clean up fragments of superbugs -- bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotics -- and until now, almost no one has noticed.
Nov 21, 2011
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(HealthDay)—It's less enchanting than reading tea leaves, but federal health officials announced Friday that they are expanding nationwide efforts to track COVID-19 by monitoring virus levels found in raw sewage.
Feb 5, 2022
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Wastewater containing coronaviruses may be a serious threat, according to a new, global study led by researchers from the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).
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