Wastewater Surveillance Effectively Detects Upticks In Viral Respiratory Infections, Study Shows

Healio (12/15, Feller) reported, “Wastewater surveillance can effectively detect upticks in viral respiratory infections, which could help identify outbreaks, another study has shown.” In the study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers “detected influenza A, RSV, human metapneumovirus, parainfluenzavirus, adenovirus, bocavirus, enterovirus/rhinovirus, parechovirus, SARS-CoV-2 and four endemic seasonal coronaviruses in the wastewater samples, all of which corresponded to increased and decreased rates of testing for all of the pathogens during the time samples were taken.”