CDC Mulls Wastewater Surveillance Pilot Program For Polio

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect that CDC may launch a pilot program at select sites across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may pilot a wastewater surveillance testing program for polio in selected cities across the United States after a case was detected in Rockland County, NY, late last month. Polio testing from wastewater samples is “very labor and resource intensive” and requires significant increases in public health laboratory capacity...