Illinois health officials have announced a new system that will test wastewater for COVID-19 and use those tests to find “early warnings of a potential.
By Benjamin Cox on May 24, 2021 at 11:42am
Eva Durance and Christopher Owen (PhD student) working on RNA extraction from wastewater.
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Discovery Partners Institute announced today they are instituting a statewide program to monitor COVID-19 in wastewater.
IDPH says that the virus is detectable in human waste nearly from the onset of infection, while symptoms may not appear for three to five days. IDPH is providing $5.5 million to build and support the monitoring system for the next year. It is the hope to detect a potential outbreak on a county-by-county basis.
IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike says monitoring wastewater has been used successfully in the past for early detection of diseases, such as polio.
(WSIL) The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) are launching a statewide system to monitor the virus that causes COVID-19 and its variants in wastewater, providing public health officials with early warnings of a potential outbreak on a county-by-county basis.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is detectable in human waste nearly from the onset of infection, while symptoms may not appear for three to five days.
IDPH is providing $5.5 Million to build and support the monitoring system for the next year.
“Data generated through sampling wastewater will help public health officials better understand the extent of COVID-19 infections in communities,” said IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike. “Wastewater testing has been used successfully in the past for early detection of diseases, such as polio. Measuring the virus levels in untreated wastewater can serve as an early indicator of increasing infections in a community and can infor
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