{"id":8945,"date":"2025-07-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:09:28","slug":"alberta-wastewater-unlocked-key-info-about-covid-19-could-it-help-with-measles-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/alberta-wastewater-unlocked-key-info-about-covid-19-could-it-help-with-measles-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta wastewater unlocked key information about COVID-19. Could it help with measles too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Alberta’s measles outbreaks grow, researchers are now watching the province’s wastewater for the highly contagious virus and hoping to determine if the technology could eventually serve as an early detection tool.<\/p>\n

The magnitude of Alberta’s outbreaks and the speed at which cases are climbing has sparked widespread concern. As of midday Tuesday, 1,323 cases<\/a> had been confirmed since the outbreaks began in March.<\/p>\n

Piggybacking off weekly wastewater samples, collected through the provincial COVID-19 surveillance program, the team has designed a test that can identify both the wild type measles virus (indicating actual infection) and vaccine-related shedding in the wastewater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Alberta’s measles outbreaks grow, researchers are now watching the province’s wastewater for the highly contagious virus and hoping to determine if the technology could eventually serve as an early detection tool.<\/p>\n

The magnitude of Alberta’s outbreaks and the speed at which cases are climbing has sparked widespread concern. As of midday Tuesday, 1,323 cases<\/a> had been confirmed since the outbreaks began in March.<\/p>\n

Piggybacking off weekly wastewater samples, collected through the provincial COVID-19 surveillance program, the team has designed a test that can identify both the wild type measles virus (indicating actual infection) and vaccine-related shedding in the wastewater.<\/p>\n

Continue readingAlberta wastewater unlocked key information about COVID-19. Could it help with measles too?<\/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":[315,96,18,388,8,14,12,354],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-measles","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}