Covid-19: what can sewage tell us? - podcast
by Presented by Hannah Devlin and produced by Madelei from Science | The Guardian on (#55YZ6)
It may be a respiratory virus, but studies have repeatedly found traces of Covid-19 in the faeces of infected patients. Using this to their advantage, scientists are sampling untreated sewage from wastewater plants in an effort to track the virus.
Hannah Devlin speaks to Andrew Singer about how what we flush down the toilet can help detect emerging outbreaks - days before patients begin presenting with symptoms
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