Bird is the word

WastewaterSCAN, an infectious disease-tracking sewage surveillance network led by Stanford University and Emory University in partnership with Verily Life Sciences, has begun scaling up H5-specific testing of samples from all of its 190 sites at treatment plants across 36 states.

The funded effort will begin sharing data with local public health officials and on its public dashboard in the coming weeks..

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The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota issued a news brief Wednesday confirming that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is going forward with production of 4.8 million H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) vaccinations.