The 30-case outbreak spanned two counties and hit a close-knit community that does not readily seek health care, the study’s ...

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 ...

Mondays are manhole days for Sean Norman. Along with a team of strong-stomached students, Norman packs his pickup truck with 12 vacuum-sized devices and other gear and heads out across the University ...

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.

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

As wastewater testing continues to prove useful in estimating the spread of the coronavirus, scientists again are using sewage to track the latest public health emergency: monkeypox. In late June — ...

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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 ...

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