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How wastewater could offer an early warning system for measles
Sewage surveillance has helped us track polio, covid, mpox, and more. Why not measles?
In one study, a team of researchers in the Netherlands tested wastewater samples collected in 2013 during a measles outbreak in an orthodox Protestant community for evidence of the virus. In another study, researchers from Nova Scotia developed a tool to screen wastewater for four pathogens simultaneously: RSV, influenza, covid, and measles. Health officials used wastewater surveillance to track the spread of mpox in 2022 and helped scientists estimate how many people in California’s Bay Area might be affected, Hana Kiros reported.
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