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Corporate Authors:
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. ; National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.)
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. ; National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.) Less -
Description:
Wastewater surveillance is an efficient and robust tool to track community spread of COVID-19 and other diseases.

CDC developed the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) to coordinate and support the nation’s capacity to monitor for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 in wastewater.

Pieces of the virus enter wastewater through the stool of infected people. Testing and tracking trends in wastewater complements other surveillance systems for COVID-19 and can show if virus levels are increasing or decreasing in a community. This information can be a critical early warning for authorities of new outbreaks and inform local decision-making, such as where to have mobile testing and vaccination sites.

CS 331723-B | 09/26/2022

331723b_covid_fs_wastewaterbrief_508.pdf


Subject:
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Communicable Disease Control
Coronavirus Infections
COVID-19
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Environmental Monitoring
Local Government
Pandemics
Population Surveillance
Public Health
Public Health Practice
Public Health Surveillance
Sewage/virology
Waste Water
Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring

Document Type:
Pamphlet (or booklet)
Name as Subject:
National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.)
Genre:
Fact Sheet
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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