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2022/09/05

Wastewater surveillance becomes more targeted in search for poliovirus, monkeypox and COVID

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Sep 05, 2022
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Swetlana Rot prepares water samples in a laboratory of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Environmental Protection in Halle/Saale. The scientists here examine wastewater for the coronavirus pathogen. Particles of it can be detected in human stool. The government wants to take advantage of this and set up a kind of early warning system via wastewater.
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