Infectious Disease Physicians’ Knowledge and Practices Regarding Wastewater Surveillance, United States, 2024

Abstract

A survey of US infectious disease physicians indicated that few regularly reviewed wastewater surveillance (WWS) data but many reported examples of how WWS has affected or could affect their clinical practice. WWS data can be useful for physicians, but increased communication between public health professionals and physicians regarding WWS could improve its utility.

Keywords

• Wastewater surveillance
• wastewater
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• infectious diseases
• physicians
• survey