Wastewater COVID Detection Efforts Extended To Look For Monkeypox

CBS San Francisco

July 29, 2022

A project monitoring the spread of COVID-19 in the Bay Area via wastewater is now expanding its efforts to also watch the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.

Throughout the pandemic, a team of researchers at Stanford University have conducted extensive surveillance of wastewater from all over the Bay Area, in order to get a better understanding of how much COVID-19 is spreading around. It's called the SCAN (sewer coronavirus alert network) project.

"We've been measuring monkeypox DNA since June 19 every day in wastewater around the Bay Area," said Professor Alexandria Boehm. "We have detected it at least once in almost all of the locations that we're monitoring."

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