Sewers and Sewage
In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal
“To have something in a sewershed that you’re detecting, you need a fair bit of it around,” said Dr. Adam Lauring, a virologist at the University of Michigan, who was not involved in the research. Dr. Johnson, the Missouri virologist, agrees. He favors the hypothesis that the sequences are coming from animals, perhaps a few […]
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Beaches Closed After 8.5 Million Gallons of Sewage Spill in Los Angeles County
About eight and a half million gallons of untreated sewage have spilled into a flood-control waterway in Los Angeles County since Thursday afternoon, prompting at least five beaches to close, an official with the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts said. “It is a lot,” said Bryan Langpap, a spokesman for the agency. “That’s the biggest […]
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Omicron Is a Dress Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic
Seek and you shall find In any other context, it would have been unremarkable: On Sunday, Nov. 28, a San Francisco resident who had been feeling mildly ill took a Covid test. The next day, it came back positive. What set off alarm bells, however, was that the resident had recently returned from South Africa, […]
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