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April 15, 2024

UNLV Wastewater Team

Tue, Jan 11, 2022 (4:44 p.m.)

Edwin Oh, Ph.D., ​​leads the wastewater surveillance program at UNLV, where he found omicron displacing delta in the wastewater in up to 9 out of 10 infections. The virus is shed in human waste, like fecal material, making sewage from humans a prime place to observe the virus and its variants.

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