With every rinse of a sink and flush of a toilet, public health is becoming easier to track thanks to a growing practice known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater surveillance. "This is an ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

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 ...

Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan wastewater for signs of the H5 influenza virus currently sickening dairy cows in at least nine states across the U.S.

Influenza virus binding to a respiratory tract cell. (File photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) San Diego County’s public health lab announced that it has begun publishing the ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The same disease-tracking technology used to monitor COVID levels in Minnesota wastewater will be put to work in search of other viral bugs. The University of Minnesota Medical School ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The state started testing wastewater at some metro high schools for illicit drugs as part of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s current public health order. They released the initial ...