Historical trends demonstrate a pattern of increasingly frequent and severe spillover events of high-consequence zoonotic viruses

AJ Meadows, N Stephenson, NK Madhav… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on patterns of infectious disease spillover.
Climate and land-use changes are predicted to increase the frequency of zoonotic spillover …

[HTML][HTML] Early detection and surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 variant BA. 2.86—worldwide, July–October 2023

AS Lambrou - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2023 - cdc.gov
Early detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants is critical to guiding rapid risk
assessments, providing clear and timely communication messages, and coordinating public …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of nanopore and synthesis-based next-generation sequencing platforms for sars-cov-2 variant monitoring in wastewater

D Garcia-Pedemonte, A Carcereny, J Gregori… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Shortly after the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many countries implemented
sewage sentinel systems to monitor the circulation of the virus in the population. A …

Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks

G St-Onge, JT Davis, L Hébert-Dufresne, A Allard… - Nature Medicine, 2025 - nature.com
Aircraft wastewater surveillance has been proposed as a new approach to monitor the
global spread of pathogens. Here we develop a computational framework providing …

Usefulness of aircraft and airport wastewater for monitoring multiple pathogens including SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Tay, B Lee, MH Ismail, J Yam, D Maliki… - Journal of Travel …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background As global travel resumed in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) endemicity,
the potential of aircraft wastewater monitoring to provide early warning of disease trends for …

Evaluating the theoretical performance of aircraft wastewater monitoring as a tool for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

JW Shingleton, CJ Lilley, MJ Wade - PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Air travel plays an important role in the cross-border spread of infectious diseases. During
the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic many countries introduced strict border testing protocols to …

Optimization and performance analytics of global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks

G St-Onge, JT Davis, L Hébert-Dufresne, A Allard… - medRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aircraft wastewater surveillance has been proposed as a novel approach to monitor the
global spread of pathogens. Here we develop a computational framework to provide …

[HTML][HTML] Notes from the Field: Early Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 2.86 Variant by the Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Program—Dulles …

SM Bart - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2023 - cdc.gov
During August 13–14, 2023, a new SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariant with a large number of
mutations compared with previously circulating BA. 2 variants (> 30 amino acid differences …

Monitoring multi-pathogens and SARS-CoV-2 variants in aircraft and airport wastewater

M Tay, B Lee, MH Ismail, J Yam, D Maliki, KYH Gin… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background As global travel resumed in COVID-19 endemicity, the potential of aircraft
wastewater monitoring to provide early warning of disease trends for SARS-CoV-2 variants …

Early Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 2.86 Variant by the Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Program—Dulles International Airport, August 2023.

SM Bart, AP Rothstein, CW Philipson… - MMWR: Morbidity & …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
The article provides information on Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance (TGS) program of
the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which was developed to provide …