Well, howdy there, internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about the sewer.

We're going to talk about the sewer. In a lot of the videos over the last couple of weeks that have dealt with polio or whatever,

I've mentioned how researchers have found traces of something in wastewater.

And it has prompted a lot of questions about how this is happening and why and when did it start and all of that stuff.

So today we are going to talk generally about wastewater in the sewer system.

So the idea that you could develop a public health tool

that could give advanced warning of diseases showing up.

It's been around a while.

By monitoring wastewater, you could pick up

little bits and pieces and know generally

where a disease is present. This concept has existed I want to say Israel's used it

for a while and had pretty good results with it. In the United States, this was mainly

done for research. You know, it wasn't something that was used as a public health tool because well there was no real money to use it in that

way and it hadn't developed to that point. However COVID it just provided a flood of resources.

So the United States now has something, I want to say it's called Scan, like Sewer,

Coronavirus Alert Network or something like that. The name's

obviously going to have to be changed because now it is tracking polio. I think they're

actually using it for monkeypox as well and it's just giving

public health officials a heads up saying hey this specific thing is showing up in this area and it allows them to counter it and

hopefully as it progresses it might even help in logistics and making sure that hospitals in certain areas have the

resources they need before they need them.

Because a lot of times this stuff will show up in the wastewater

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