The University of Arizona’s Yuma Center for Excellence for Desert Agriculture led the nation in using wastewater to monitor community COVID-19 transmission at the height of the pandemic. But the technology didn’t end there.Today, researchers at the center are using human wastewater to track a dangerous fungal outbreak you might have heard of lately: Candida aura.And from
During the pandemic, wastewater monitoring was the proverbial canary on the coalmine for COVID-19.Since then, experts have monitored wastewater to track COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syntactical virus in Yuma County, which during winter supplies the vast majority of the country’s leafy greens.Now, the state health department and the University of Arizona's Yuma Center of
Wastewater-based epidemiology's potential was brought to bear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it could help public health officials get ahead of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris.
Despite a wet winter, the drought crisis along the Colorado River remains dire and produce farmers along the California-Arizona border may be facing their first ever cuts to irrigation water.