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Avian flu or bird flu was detected in wastewater in Phoenix, Surprise and Tempe, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health confirmed on Monday. All three of the cities conduct wastewater ...

Over the past 15 months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 70 human cases of bird flu across ...

Ibitoye is a visiting fellow at the Brown University Pandemic Center. Nuzzo is director of the Pandemic Center and professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.

Newly released wastewater surveillance data suggests Michigan is a national hot spot for the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that's infecting poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across ...

Scientific American spoke with Boehm about the latest bird flu detections in wastewater and the ways that scientists are using these data to better track and understand disease prevalence and ...

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu​, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of ...

Wastewater surveillance became central to public health officials’ ability to track COVID. The same is true for other threats, like H5N1 avian influenza. Bird flu has now spread from wild birds, to ...

Wastewater monitoring helps communities spot rising outbreaks of influenza, COVID, RSV, and more. Our writer gets her feet ...

Wastewater testing for viruses often gives ... In cows, this type of bird flu seems to infiltrate the mammary system. High levels of the virus have been detected in their milk, slowing production ...

New research shows that wild birds can account for much of the avian influenza virus evidence found in wastewater in Oregon, suggesting wastewater detections of the virus do not automatically ...