CDC funds Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence
The center is intended to strengthen public health response to infectious disease threats.
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The center is intended to strengthen public health response to infectious disease threats.
Septic system updates are tearing apart towns from Montana to Cape Cod, as they struggle with sewage and toxic algae.
Samples collected from sewage water suggest viral activity is higher than the number of reported cases suggests.
Data collected from sewage water generates more accurate and economical information on COVID-19 activity than reports that depend on positive test results. But funding for this type of analysis hasn’t been reliable.
Wastewater monitoring for COVID and other diseases provides a critical, real-time detection tool, but many communities can't figure out how to pay for it.