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Analyzing samples from both municipal sewage systems and human saliva in mouths, a multi-disciplinary team of scientists at the University of Windsor is aiming to now track and publicize diseases in the population before the negative health symptoms even begin to show.
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And the public gets to see the ongoing results in an online real-time interactive dashboard that combines the results of this early sampling with disease outbreaks detected and reported by health authorities like the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.
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Windsor public health is warning swimmers of high levels of bacteria in the waters near Sandpoint Beach. The beach tested high for E. Coli on Monday July 19. (Jennifer La Grassa/CBC)