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Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) enables the early detection of infectious diseases (1, 2) and monitoring of community health trends (3), making it a critical public health tool. This year, US policy-makers sought to politicize WBS by tracking compounds linked to reproductive behaviors and sexual health, threatening Americans’ privacy under the banner of “environmental monitoring.” WBS should be used exclusively to improve and protect public health…
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Wastewater surveillance requires ethical use | Science
Elroy Pingree
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Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) enables the early detection of infectious diseases (1, 2) and monitoring of community health trends (3), making it a critical public health tool. This year, US policy-makers sought to politicize WBS by tracking compounds linked to reproductive behaviors and sexual health, threatening Americans’ privacy under the banner of “environmental monitoring.” WBS should
