A wastewater monitoring pilot designed to support situational awareness across respiratory, gastrointestinal, vector-borne, and vaccine-preventable pathogens.
The Program
Data shown are from wastewater samples that represent aggregate estimates of viral abundance in a community. They do not represent individual, clinical tests.
The data are intended to inform the public. They should not be used as a substitute for individual testing and diagnosis.
THE PARTNERSHIP
Biobot is the pioneer and global leader in wastewater epidemiology, transforming sewage infrastructure into a real-time public health observatory. Founded out of a research project at MIT, Biobot provided the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in the U.S. in early 2020. Its pioneering work has expanded to monitor dozens of pathogens and high-risk substances across hundreds of communities.
Building on decades of virology expertise, the Maresso Lab at Baylor College of Medicine have pioneered a wastewater sequencing assay that simultaneously screens hundreds of human and animal viruses. Their work, published in Nature Communications and awarded the 2024 STAT Madness popular vote, monitors communities across Texas as an early-warning “smoke alarm” for outbreaks.
The Science
Explore how virome metagenomic sequencing turns a single wastewater sample into a screen for thousands of human and animal viruses.
