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Areas surveilling wastewater to track COVID are experimenting with predicting monkeypox cases and the relative risks of monkeypox transmission with virus prevalence.
While it’s theoretically possible for rats and mice to become a US reservoir of monkeypox, the experts we talked to said virus-containing wastewater is not a concern at the moment — and you definitely don’t need to bleach your toilet water.
The effort expands on a previous initiative in Northern California that provided the only reported detections of monkeypox genetic material in sewage.
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Evidence of the monkeypox virus has shown up in Bay Area wastewater since mid-June, indicating the presence of infection, according to data from Stanford University's Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network.