Nearly 80 percent of U.S. households are connected to municipal wastewater collection systems. These sewer systems contain the biological waste, including discharged pathogens, of the human ...

"Even in busy practices in non-academic settings, a programmatic approach can improve HCC screening in patients with cirrhosis, resulting in earlier therapy and better outcomes overall." — Sripriya ...

Pandemics start slowly — a few cases here, a few there — until suddenly people are sick or dying everywhere. Early detection by monitoring wastewater can help short-circuit that cycle. It’s difficult ...

In a recent study published on the medRxiv* preprint server, a team of researchers critically evaluated the performance of public health surveillance systems in detecting coronavirus disease 2019 ...

Mvuyo Makhasi is currently the project lead for digital participatory surveillance that will be launched by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Cheryl Cohen receives funding from United ...

To prevent future health crises, monitoring the emergence of zoonotic diseases in wild meat value chains is essential. In this regard, the role of community hunters is crucial, as they can report ...

How Is Wastewater Used to Monitor the Health of a Community? Historically, public health officials have employed wastewater-based epidemiology to track infectious disease transmission in a population, ...

Florence Nightingale’s innovative “rose diagram” of preventable deaths revolutionized data-driven disease surveillance. 1 Raw hospital mortality data collected during the Crimean War were transformed ...