Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spikes of influenza A virus seen in wastewater samples from 59 sewer systems across 18 different states this spring may point to ...

Questions are growing about sewage flowing out of the back of the Wintergreen Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nelson County.

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Spikes of influenza A virus seen in wastewater samples from 59 sewer systems across 18 different states this spring may point to the spread of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is currently ...

Wastewater experts wondered if it might be from H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza infections in dairy cattle or other animals. The WastewaterSCAN team developed a test to check for the flu ...

Spikes of flu virus in wastewater raise questions about spread of bird flu (CNN) — Spikes of influenza A virus seen in wastewater samples from 59 sewer systems across 18 different states this spring ...

Out of 190 wastewater treatment plants that currently monitor sludge samples for influenza A, 59 saw increases of the A-strain viruses this spring, just as human flu cases were flat or falling.