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Everybody poops. Wisconsin is a national leader in using it to monitor public health
Aug 16, 2023
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In September 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials and researchers started hunting for signs of the virus' spread in an unexpected place: our poop.
Samples of municipal wastewater provided a wealth of information that ― combined with diagnostic lab testing, hospitalization rates, and other disease surveillance data ― could warn officials of a rise in cases, help them track evolving forms of the virus and inform public health policy.
In Wisconsin, a trio of research and public health organizations collaborated to expand wastewater disease testing like never before.