A project monitoring the spread of COVID-19 in the Bay Area via wastewater is now expanding its efforts to also watch the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
Throughout the pandemic, a team of researchers at Stanford University have conducted extensive surveillance of wastewater from all over the Bay Area, in order to get a better understanding of how much COVID-19 is spreading around. It's called the SCAN project.
"We are working with all of the wastewater treatment plants, and they provide samples every single day to us," she said. "We've seen the frequency of detection increase, and the concentrations increase at some of the plants over the last month," she said."The locations with the most frequent detection of monkeypox DNA and the highest concentrations in our area have been in San Francisco County."
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