Monitoring Wastewater for Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
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.
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.
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