Wastewater monitoring: research aims to enhance TB prevention and detection in Nunavut
“A groundbreaking research study is being launched in Iqaluit to explore wastewater monitoring as a tool to detect and prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in Nunavut.”
Wastewater surveillance research provides a 12-day lead time for RSV season: new study
“University of Ottawa’s Delatolla Lab working with CHEO Research Institute and McMaster’s Children’s Hospital uses real-time wastewater measurements to boost hospital preparedness”
Robert Delatolla’s wastewater work nets medal for engineering excellence
“Faculty of Engineering professor Robert Delatolla has been awarded the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence.”
Monitoring wastewater gives Ontario health officials an early warning of respiratory virus
“Having advance warning of when RSV would start to spread rapidly means health officials can be more accurate about when to begin doses of preventative immunotherapy, called palivizumab, to at-risk infants and children under two.”
“The work is part of a growing global movement to track numerous diseases in wastewater and to hone in on neighbourhoods and institutions.”
Canadian researchers turn to wastewater tests at long-term care homes to detect COVID hot spots
“‘It could be like a smoke detector,’ said Ottawa researcher Robert Delatolla”
More coronavirus in wastewater could signal rise in cases, scientist says
“Levels of coronavirus in Ottawa’s wastewater increasing since June 5”
Robert Delatolla’s wastewater work nets medal for engineering excellence
“Faculty of Engineering professor Robert Delatolla has been awarded the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence.”
‘Game-changing’: Ottawa’s COVID-19 wastewater program honoured
The “game-changing” method is now used by all 34 public health units in Ontario, covering 80 per cent of the population.
Why testing sewage for COVID-19 could be more useful than ever
What wastewater surveillance can — and can’t — tell us, and why only some provinces are using the data