HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- City leaders are discussing more COVID-19 testing options as the virus continues to impact Houston and surrounding areas. Experts said they are researching a new, innovative ...

As COVID-19 testing becomes less routine, official case numbers can make outbreaks look smaller than they really are. A research team led by Professor Michio Murakami has now shown that wastewater ...

Across the country, cities and universities are testing sewage to monitor the virus. Studies suggest it's a useful way to augment standard person-by-person coronavirus testing and while a sewage ...

TORONTO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Early in the pandemic, a few cities and countries around the world began testing sewage for evidence of the coronavirus, hoping to detect rising infections early. Now some ...

The Minnesota Department of Health is now publishing weekly wastewater monitoring data for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, on its website, adding a new public ...

Since the coronavirus arrived in the United States, stores have been selling out of wipes as quickly as they can stock them. Now, those wipes are getting flushed down toilets, where they clog the ...

The country is heading into a COVID-19 winter without fully deploying widespread testing of sewage for traces of coronavirus, a Newsy investigation has found. Wastewater surveillance is one of the few ...

With no confirmed case of the coronavirus, Yosemite National Park appeared to be a safe haven from the pandemic. But tests of the park’s raw sewage have confirmed the presence of the virus, the San ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists are reporting traces of the COVID-19 variant omicron in sewage from multiple cities across the state of California, including in Southern California. This means the next ...

The Missouri departments of Natural Resources and Health and Senior Services are teaming up with researchers from the University of Missouri to use samples of wastewater from across the state to help ...