Resources with keywords: wastewater



Notes from the Field: Genomic and Wastewater Surveillance Data to Guide a Hepatitis A Outbreak Response — Los Angeles County, March 2024–June 2024
CDC / MMWR

Genomic analysis and wastewater testing can complement traditional case-based surveillance to identify and better characterize HAV outbreaks.

Detections of poliovirus in sewage samples require enhanced routine and catch-up vaccination and increased surveillance
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
30 January 2025

Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in sewage samples. This is the first time cVDPV2 has been detected in EU/EEA countries from environmental surveillance.

Wastewater Surveillance for Poliovirus in Selected Jurisdictions, United States, 2022–2023
CDC / Emerging Infectious Diseases
20 October 2024

EID Whitehouse ER, Gerloff N, English R, Reckling SK, Alazawi MA, Fuschino M, et al.

Stability of Monkeypox Virus in Body Fluids and Wastewater
CDC / Emerging Infectious Diseases
18 September 2023

Yinda C, Morris DH, Fischer RJ, et al.
The findings suggest that, because virus stability is sufficient to support environmental MPXV transmission in healthcare settings, exposure and dose-response will be limiting factors for those transmission routes

Omicron COVID-19 Case Estimates Based on Previous SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Load, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada (Website, Publication)
CDC / Emerging Infectious Diseases
28 June 2023

Cheng L, Dhiyebi H, Varia M, Atanas K, Srikanthan N, Hayat S, et al..
At the peak of the Omicron BA.2 outbreak in April 2022, reported COVID-19 cases were underestimated 19-fold because of changes in clinical testing.

Notes from the Field: Aircraft Wastewater Surveillance for Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants — John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, August–September 2022 (Website, Publication)
CDC/MMWR
24 February 2023

Morfino RC, Bart SM, Franklin A, et al.
Summary from publication: During August 1–September 9, 2022, the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, in collaboration with CDC, evaluated the feasibility of SARS-CoV-2 variant detection in aircraft wastewater from incoming international flights.

Wastewater Testing and Detection of Poliovirus Type 2 Genetically Linked to Virus Isolated from a Paralytic Polio Case — New York, March 9–October 11, 2022
CDC/MMWR
4 November 2022

Ryerson AB, Lang D, Alazawi MA, et al.

Virus Clues Found in Wastewater (NEW 8/3, Document, News)
Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
29 July 2021
In the Tales Told by Sewage, Public Health and Privacy Collide (Website, Publication)
Medscape
21 April 2021

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in the U.S. Will Covid change that?

keywords: covid-19, wastewater
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidance for Local Jurisdictions (Website, Video)
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Zoom video and transcript

keywords: covid-19, wastewater
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