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Wastewater surveillance reveals pathogens in Detroit’s population, helping monitor and predict disease outbreaks since 2017

  • Written by Irene Xagoraraki, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University
imageIrene Xagoraraki leads an environmental virology lab at Michigan State University.Irene Xagoraraki, CC BY-ND

Wastewater surveillance hit the big time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when officials started using this technique to monitor local virus levels. But my colleagues and I had been exploring wastewater’s promise as a public...

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