As measles cases rise to precipitously high levels in the US this year, there’s a new tool to help track the spread: wastewater. Wastewater surveillance rose to prominence during the Covid-19 ...

How wastewater data can help health officials. This type of tracking for measles is too new to know yet whether it can detect cases in a region before people start testing positive, Wolfe says.

ATLANTA — As measles cases continue to rise across the US, researchers are now using sewage wastewater to track the virus. It’s testing similar to what scientists did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. is about to break a record for the number of reported measles cases in a year since the infection was considered ...

Wastewater monitoring, a technique that gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, may now offer a crucial early warning system for measles outbreaks across the U.S.

As Texas contends with more than 750 cases of the measles, much smaller outbreaks in Mountain West states appear to be ...

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DEMING, New Mexico (KVIA) -- The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) just announced that wastewater in Deming tested positive for measles. The sample in question was taken on June 10 as part ...

Why wastewater monitoring may be especially useful for measles. Doctors who see patients with measles must report the case to the CDC so the agency can track it and respond to any outbreaks. But ...

As measles cases continue to rise across the US, researchers are now using sewage wastewater to track the virus. It’s testing similar to what scientists did during the COVID-19 pandemic.