When clinical studies emerged showing that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus in their stool, the sewer seemed like an obvious place to look for it. Wastewater surveillance can be ...

The country is heading into a COVID-19 winter without fully deploying widespread testing of sewage for traces of coronavirus, a Newsy investigation has found. Wastewater surveillance is one of the few ...

TORONTO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Early in the pandemic, a few cities and countries around the world began testing sewage for evidence of the coronavirus, hoping to detect rising infections early. Now some ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned sewage into gold. People who are infected with the coronavirus shed the germ in their stool. By measuring and sequencing the viral material present in sewage, ...

Experts say older adults, parents with young children and people with compromised immune systems should take special care.