Japan turns to wastewater for greater state of the pandemic

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In Japan, poop would likely have uncovered a new role: predicting community-level trends in coronavirus infections.

Monitoring wastewater, which carries feces containing viruses, may be a game-changer in the national fight against COVID-19 by making it possible to stumble earlier with the spread of the disease within a network, experts say.

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