Lessons Learned from NACCHO’s Wastewater Surveillance Mentorship Program : Local Health Departments Share Best Practices [Report]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Association of County & City Health Officials (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Wastewater surveillance is a rapidly developing tool used to monitor community-level infections and disease trends. Though it existed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the pandemic that led to the widespread implementation of community-level wastewater surveillance across the United States. Wastewater surveillance systems are used to detect the presence of pathogen biomarkers, typically shed by humans in the form of microbial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA), in untreated wastewater. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be detected through wastewater surveillance up to 3 to 4 days before detection is possible with individual testing. As a result, wastewater surveillance can serve as a non-invasive and cost-efficient early warning system that may inform public health leaders in decision-making to limit the spread of COVID-19. Looking beyond the pandemic, wastewater surveillance can serve as a valuable tool for tracking other pathogen targets, such as influenza A and B, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Mpox, and more.
  
  This publication was made possible through support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cooperative Agreement OT18-1802. NACCHO is grateful for this support. The contents do not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsor.
  
  WWS-Mentorship-Program_2024Brief.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Data Interpretation, Statistical Disease Outbreaks Environmental Monitoring Local Government Pandemics Population Surveillance Public Health Public Health Practice Public Health Surveillance Sewage/virology Waste Water Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring

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• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement OT18-1802
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  5 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5e966bba2a036d09bbc6eaeaa76899082960e12e4ae4824fc811a104bb241a70
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/155050/cdc_155050_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.23 MB ]