NAS Eyeing Wastewater Surveillance To Track Diseases Beyond COVID-19

The National Academy of Sciences is poised to begin a two-part study on testing municipal wastewater as a way to trace, prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases beyond COVID-19, providing guidance to EPA and other federal agencies that began using the monitoring approach during the pandemic. The study is being funding by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but will draw on ongoing interagency research efforts of which EPA is a part, according to the Centers...