Laurie Garrett discusses the role of wastewater testing in public health and her idea of a device that could be used by anyone to analyze water samples.

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Laurie Garrett and Vincent Racaniello

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Links for this episode * Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) * Coliform testing of water in Florida (YouTube) * Declining cost of genome sequencing (Illumina) * National wastewater surveillance system (CDC) * Advances in detection of viruses in wastewater (Med Express) * Wastewater monitoring comes of age (Nature) * Monitoring monkeypox virus in wastewater (Med Express) * Poliovirus wastewater surveillance in NY (Dept of Health) * Wastewater surveillance in NYS (Dept of Health) * Estimating norovirus infections through wastewater (Water Res) * Estimating antimicrobial resistant bacteria through latrine water (Antimicro Res Inf Control)

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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