One helpful characteristic of Covid, if there is such a thing, is that those who become infected shed the virus through their poop. Over the last few years, public health officials capitalized on this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're feeling sick, it can be frustrating to see a negative COVID test result. Some people say they only get an accurate COVID ...

ATLANTA - CDC officials are warning of a surge in COVID-19 cases among other flu-like illnesses nationwide. This comes as people are returning from holiday travel plans. Experts say they’ve also seen ...

There's a lot to learn from poop. That's why Ohio has been monitoring wastewater for COVID-19 since 2020, and why this year the state expanded the effort to monitor for flu. In Cincinnati, the city ...

In September 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials and researchers started hunting for signs of the virus' spread in an unexpected place: our poop. Samples of municipal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas is ...