Canadian Wastewater Surveillance Expands To New Public Health Threats Tam
During the COVID-19 pandemic, sewage testing became a key way to track the spread of the virus, especially as free laboratory tests for people were phased out for all but a few in later waves. Dr Theresa Tam said experts at the National Microbiology Laboratory have now discovered a promising approach to detecting monkeypox in sewage and will use the infrastructure developed during the pandemic to look for it. “Moving forward, it could be part of our monitoring of disease activity going up and down across the country,” Tam said at a media briefing....