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Japan looks to sewage to gain new insight into state of pandemic

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Staff Published August 21, 2022
Last updated: 2022/08/21 at 8:50 PM
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In Japan, poop may have found a new role — foretelling community-level trends in coronavirus infections.

Surveillance of wastewater — which carries virus-containing feces — could be a game changer in the nation’s fight against COVID-19 by making it possible to detect the spread of the disease within a community at an earlier point, experts say.

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