HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Could the future of tracking positive COVID-19 cases in Houston come from the sewer? City officials and wastewater engineers are hoping their methods become the next tool in ...

marker of “fresh” human fecal inputs because it cannot survive long outside of the human body. Lab-based decay studies of HF183 in surface water are on the order of a few days, and roughly a week in ...

Fetid water pools outside a mobile home in Hayneville in Lowndes County, Ala., in 2022. For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around ...

Every day, clues are released about a population's health through toilets, sinks, showers, and tubs. In wealthier countries like the United States, sewer networks collect tiny bits of feces, urine, ...

Bodily waste and other stuff that gets flushed down the toilet is no secret. In fact, it’s become public information. Under a new pilot program, human excrement is being tested, recorded and studied ...

This new method could help to determine how well seasonal flu vaccines are working and may also help detect the next pandemic at an early stage. The study has been published in The Lancet Microbe. It ...

From regulatory shifts and major infrastructure investments to emerging treatment technologies and workforce challenges, 2025 ...

Study shows how places without modern sanitation systems can still use wastewater to catch outbreaks before dangerous diseases travel across borders Every day, we release clues about our health ...