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These scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office — through sewage

Researchers are hunting through waste water for heavily mutated SARS-CoV-2 variants that could be the next Omicron.
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Clockwise from front-left: Scientists Shelby O’Connor, Max Bobholz, David O’Connor, Mitchell Ramuta, William Vuyk and Olivia Harwood at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been tracking a heavily mutated variant of SARS-CoV-2 in waste water. Credit: Jeff Miller/UW-Madison

Virologist Dave O’Connor admits that he was getting desperate when he started asking dog owners for poo samples.

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Nature 609, 883-885 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02996-y

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