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[ChristinaK]

Just stumbled across this interesting article about a recent Penn State research paper. 

Summary: Sewage monitoring as a supplement for disease surveillance and foodborne illness outbreaks.

 

Food Safety Magazine article

 

Research Article "Outbreak-associated Salmonella Baildon found in wastewater demonstrates how sewage monitoring can supplement traditional disease surveillance" via Journal of Clinical Microbiology 

 

Personally, I'm just thinking about how amazing it is to have whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a technology that exists in our lifetime. I was a teenager back when the human genome project was started, so it's wild that now we have thousands of genomes wholly or partially sequenced. And now it costs only about $1000 USD to sequence a human genome, when back in 2001 it was something like $100,000,000 USD!

 

I just wanted to nerd out a bit. (～￣▽￣)～It's just so cool.

[Scampi]

Where i am, they have already started waste water monitoring for H1N1 (avian flu)  to get a better look at the virus in humans   

very cool indeed