Targeted wastewater surveillance has a history of social and ethical concerns
June 28, 2022
2021 Wall Scholar, Mohammed Rafi Arefin recently published a piece in The Conversation about the ethical, social and political concerns of wastewater-based epidemiology – particularly as sewage is surveilled at increasingly smaller scales.
These include college dormitories, long-term care facilities and workplaces across North America; law enforcement-targeted areas in China and Australia; correctional facilities throughout the U.S., including Oklahoma, Kentucky and Ohio; and migrant worker housing facilities in Singapore.
You can read or listen to the entire article at The Conversation.
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