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2026 07 Jan
Wastewater-based surveillance is moving from ad hoc use during health emergencies to a more structured role within infectious disease surveillance across the EU and EEA. New legislative requirements that entered into force in early 2025 have made wastewater sampling mandatory for multiple public health purposes, creating both opportunity and 1Read more
2020 08 Dec
Without a national and coordinated response to COVID-19, the United States has been ineffective at preventing and mitigating the escalating pandemic. What the country needs, according to new research ( Post et al. 2020) , is a dynamic public health surveillance to better inform prevention efforts. You might also like: COVID-19: I1Read more
2020 27 Aug
During the initial wave of the COVID-19 contagion, many countries recorded infection curves that were linear for extended time periods. This linear growth over an extended time interval is in contrast to the S-shaped curves expected from standard epidemiological models. You might also like: Mobility, Connectivity and Pandemics of 1Read more
2020 22 Jun
New research from Guangzhou, China has found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen that causes COVID-19, can be transmitted faster within households as compared to SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). You might also like: Alternating Lockdowns and Rela1Read more