In NI we built a world leading programme to proactively monitor these virus, with results in real time and often in advance of clinical cases. It’s such a shame-and a worry-that we are no longer utilising this investment to support public health
@Qubwastewater@AlanStout19
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Wastewater based epidemiology can help underpin the One Health approach…and it really is a cheap and cheerful method of surveillance. BioTechniques @MyBioTechniques invited me to waffle a bit about our influenza A work
https://t.co/RXY39VcE3t
We set up an NHS Lantern Lab for asymptomatic testing of HCW in NI along with colleagues in Ulster Uni. Frustratingly few samples received from HCW- bureaucracy. Instead we tested thousands of SEND samples- so facility was there- but not used for HCW.
@VGBrown
🚨New paper alert🚨Our influenza A (IAV) wastewater paper is no longer in pre-print purgatory and now published in The Lancet Microbe https://t.co/qZsh9c5i9J
@Qubwastewater we demonstrate the inherent value of WBE as a tool for combined human AND avian IAV genomic surveillance.
Lastly we would like to thank all those from NI Water @niwnews , NIEA @daera_ni , The British Trust for Ornithology @_BTO , @LancetMicrobe and our papers anonymous peer reviewers for the myriad ways in which they helped.