Wasting No Time: CDC Adapts Wastewater Surveillance to Stay Vigilant for Emerging Threats

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• Corporate Authors:
   National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  The COVID-19 pandemic made the value of sewage clear. For epidemiologists, CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) provides invaluable insights by helping identify community infection trends before they appear in clinical cases. In 2022, NWSS enhanced detection of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. But perhaps equally critical were efforts to adapt wastewater surveillance for other emerging infectious disease challenges.
  
  CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) launched NWSS in September 2020 to track the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in community-level wastewater samples collected from sewersheds across the United States. Building on initial investments, CDC worked with public health, utility, private sector, academic, and federal partners to track SARS-CoV-2 and scale the surveillance system to include an estimated 1,200 testing sites across the United States, including in territories and on tribal lands.
  
  
• Subjects:
  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 United States Government Agencies Waste Water Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring

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• Series:
  NZEID Accomplishments 2022
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch. ; National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:925f4998276ea3bd9cb600b5e020c84ee453fcae1fc978c4bb30d830579b7b83df71c987b619d32d0a12c454a2641567a4dee3e07dc48adcc5ff27d69de73d85
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/128441/cdc_128441_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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