{"id":130298,"date":"2021-11-09T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/tracking-coronavirus-via-the-sewer-system"},"modified":"2021-11-09T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:43:55","slug":"tracking-coronavirus-via-the-sewer-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/tracking-coronavirus-via-the-sewer-system","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Coronavirus Via The Sewer System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracking-coronavirus-via-the-sewer-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wastewater samples are being used to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sometimes called \u2018wastewater-based epidemiology\u2019 (WBE) \u2013 a scientific and public health field that involves detecting and monitoring specific molecules in untreated wastewater, to determine how prevalent they are. First proposed <a aria-label=\"more than 70 years ago\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8561468\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8561468\/\">more than 70 years ago<\/a> as a way to track the spread of the deadly poliovirus, WBE has since been used to measure <a aria-label=\"human population exposure to pollutants\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0048969719329924?via%3Dihub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0048969719329924?via%3Dihub\">human population exposure to pollutants<\/a>, and even to <a aria-label=\"estimate the level of drug consumption in major cities\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emcdda.europa.eu\/publications\/html\/pods\/waste-water-analysis_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.emcdda.europa.eu\/publications\/html\/pods\/waste-water-analysis_en\">estimate the level of drug consumption in major cities<\/a>. In 2,020 it hit global news headlines when it was first proposed as a way to track SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wastewater samples are being used to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2. It\u2019s sometimes called \u2018wastewater-based epidemiology\u2019 (WBE) \u2013 a scientific and public health field that involves detecting and monitoring specific molecules in untreated wastewater, to determine how prevalent they are. First proposed more than 70 years ago as a way to track the spread of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}