NWSS Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S.

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Wastewater (sewage) can be tested to detect traces of infectious diseases circulating in a community, even if people don’t have symptoms. You can use these data as an early warning that levels of infections may be increasing or decreasing in your community.

Wastewater Monitoring Data

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CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program collects and displays wastewater data from communities across the United States.

Wastewater detections of the virus that causes mpox in the past 4 weeks, United States
See mpox results by test type

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