It’s already given public health officials an early warning, when an outbreak hit Mesa in August.
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Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit.
Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are joining forces to track, and for the first time in Colorado, identify in wastewater another highly contagious serious airborne disease caused by a virus: measles.
