Canadian Wastewater Surveillance Expanding to New Public Health Threats: Tam

Canadian Wastewater Surveillance Expanding to New Public Health Threats: Tam
Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam listens to a question during a news conference in Ottawa on Jan. 12, 2021. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
The Canadian Press
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Canada’s chief public health officer says plans are underway to sift through Canadian sewage to test for and measure new health threats like monkeypox and polio.

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic wastewater detection became a key way to track the spread of the virus.