The University of Windsor is a major partner in hub called the Canadian Hub for Health Intelligence & Innovation in Infectious Diseases (HI3). The new national hub’s main focus is on enhancing Canada’s ability to respond more effectively, and quicker to future pandemics.
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Analyzing samples from both municipal sewage systems and human saliva in mouths, a multi-disciplinary team of scientists at the University of Windsor is aiming to now track and publicize diseases in the population before the negative health symptoms even begin to show.
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And the public gets to see the ongoing results in an online real-time interactive dashboard that combines the results of this early sampling with disease outbreaks detected and reported by health authorities like the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.