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COVID-19 in the wastewater: UW researchers track silent spreader in sewage


COVID-19 in the wastewater: UW researchers track silent spreader in sewage
UW researchers track silent spreader in sewage
SEATTLE - As COVID-19 runs rampant in the Puget Sound, University of Washington scientists are tracking the virus in the one place most of us want nothing to do with the sewer. 
Handling raw sewage is something PhD student Sarah Philo and post-graduate Angelo Ong do on a weekly basis, donning layers of gloves and other biosafety gear, including respirators. It’s not for the wastewater, it’s for the virus living in it. 
Once we saw the pandemic starting to take hold, one of our first thoughts, in my mind, was that we should start measuring the virus in wastewater, said Scott Meschke, UW professor of environmental and occupational health services.  ....

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