The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department said Friday that measles has recently been detected in a local wastewater ...

Public health is a key component of a thriving community.  A new way to gauge illnesses could alert healthcare providers even ...

Measles has been detected in a wastewater sample collected in Lincoln, though no cases of the highly contagious virus have ...

Wastewater testing has become an important part of public health in the last five years, providing an early warning for ...

HealthDay News — Wastewater surveillance testing for measles can alert public health authorities before and during a measles outbreak, according to research published in the Jan. 15 issue of the US ...

For the first time, the County's public health lab began routine in-house wastewater testing Jan. 7, with the results ...

Wastewater surveillance, a public health tool that expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now being used in Utah ...

New York state officials eye new approaches to control "forever chemicals" contaminants known as PFAS in water, soils ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego County health officials announced Wednesday that are launching a new tool to monitor the spread of disease, and it comes from an unexpected source: wastewater. For ...

On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the community.