Portland’s water district will start testing wastewater for the monkeypox virus, reports the Bangor Daily News (paywalled).
The private company Biobot tests for COVID at a couple of NH wastewater plants (data is here). I queried them yesterday and was told “we’re currently working through R&D for monkeypox, and will launch monkeypox analysis early this fall.”
Speaking of monkeypox, northern New England has seen very few cases so far: Monitor story here.
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