Health officials work to connect the dots during the early stages of an outbreak. Maxiphoto/iStock via Getty Images Plus A cluster of people talking on social media about their mysterious rashes. A ...
Wastewater surveillance, a public health tool that expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being used in Utah to help track the spread of another highly contagious disease: measles.
A research team analyzed wastewater surveillance methods for accurately tracking COVID-19 infection trends. Using wastewater data from Sapporo dating from April 2021-September 2023, they explored ...
Technological advances have transformed public health surveillance toward tracking, managing and taking action in the advents of health crises. Early data collection and statistical methods have ...
Yale School of Public Health recently unveiled a platform that offers reliable, real-time, synthesized health data directly ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . U.S. maternal mortality rates varied based on the type of surveillance method used. From 1999 to 2002 and 2018 ...
When a threat to public safety surfaces, every second counts. Lives can be lost if the people and systems responsible for protecting public spaces are slow to identify problems, inefficient in their ...
How Is Wastewater Used to Monitor the Health of a Community? Historically, public health officials have employed wastewater-based epidemiology to track infectious disease transmission in a population, ...