Wastewater containing coronavirus may be a serious public health threat, according to a new global study led by researchers from BGU’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research.
Wastewater containing coronavirus may be a serious public health threat, according to a new global study led by researchers from BGU’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research.
Published in Nature Sustainability, the paper by an international collaboration of 35 researchers evaluates recent studies on COVID-19 in wastewater and previous airborne infectious diseases, including SARS and MERS.
The goal is to evaluate potential threats, avenues of research and possible solutions, as well as garner beneficial perspectives for the future.
“There is ample reason to be concerned about how long coronaviruses survive in wastewater and how it impacts natural water sources,” said lead author Dr. Edo Bar-Zeev, incumbent of the institute’s Roy J. Zuckerberg Career Development Chair for Water Research.
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