Now that bird flu has been detected in animals in all 50 states, and nearly 70 cases have been confirmed in people, health officials are racing to find better and more reliable ways to track the virus ...

On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the ...

San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

Among the many lasting legacies of COVID-19 may be a newfound appreciation for the value of what we flush down the toilet and wash down the drain. Wastewater can be a rich source of information about ...

New Covid-19 infections are no longer tracked or reported as closely as they were during the public health emergency. Instead, US officials now focus on testing the contents of Americans’ wastewater ...

Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit. Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in-house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the ...

Marin officials are hoping that analysis of local wastewater will become an effective tool in addressing a surge of drug overdoses in the county, just as it was in stemming the spread of COVID-19. In ...

A handful of Bay Area communities are now turning to their wastewater to track their opioid crisis. The same tech that is being used to track COVID will now help them track fentanyl and meth in hopes ...

A coalition of top scientists loaded its last set of wastewater samples for analysis Sunday after receiving the final word from San Diego County late last week that the work should cease due to a ...