KWR in het nieuws G.J. Medema - Coronavirus in Sewage Portended Covid-19 Outbreak in Dutch City

“Dutch scientists were able to find the coronavirus in a city’s wastewater before Covid-19 cases were reported, demonstrating a novel early warning system for the pneumonia-causing disease. The so-called SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is often excreted in an infected person’s stool. Although it’s unlikely that sewage will become an important route of transmission, the pathogen’s increasing circulation in communities will increase the amount of it flowing into sewer systems, Gertjan Medema and colleagues at the KWR Water Research Institute in Nieuwegein said on Monday.”

(Citaat: Gale, J. – KWR in het nieuws G.J. Medema – Coronavirus in Sewage Portended Covid-19 Outbreak in Dutch City – www.bloomberg.com (2020)31 maart)