{"id":7957,"date":"2025-01-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2025-02-03T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:21:02","slug":"tracking-diseases-from-the-sewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tracking-diseases-from-the-sewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking diseases from the sewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has just launched a new tool that supports the tracking of the spread of infectious diseases by analysing wastewater: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wastewater-observatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/#\/content\/the-eu-dashboard\">European Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard<\/a>. It displays data from across the EU by bringing together existing national and research-based dashboards.<\/p>\n<p>By providing near real-time information on pathogen trends, the dashboard can support public health authorities in their efforts to track, predict, and respond promptly to disease outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>The dashboard was developed by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wastewater-observatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/\">EU Wastewater Observatory for Public Health<\/a> of the Joint Research Centre (JRC)&nbsp;in collaboration with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/about\/departments-and-executive-agencies\/health-emergency-preparedness-and-response-authority_en\">European Health Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)<\/a>. This tool is designed to support the integration of wastewater testing into EU public health surveillance activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has just launched a new tool that supports the tracking of the spread of infectious diseases by analysing wastewater: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wastewater-observatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/#\/content\/the-eu-dashboard\">European Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard<\/a>. It displays data from across the EU by bringing together existing national and research-based dashboards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tracking-diseases-from-the-sewer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracking diseases from the sewer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-7957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-research","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7958,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/7958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}