 Newport, Oregon monitored shrimp populations, quantified annual patterns of shrimp recruitment to West Coast estuaries and built an age based population dynamics model for these shrimp by quantifying the amount of lipofuscin, a pigment in their brains. Though recruitment of small young-of-the year shrimp varies widely from year to year and from estuary to estuary, the age based model suggested that there was also consistent and relatively high natural mortality of older shrimp after recruitment. Though the chemical treatment program in Washington State continues to be difficult to permit, developing a good monitoring plan that includes recruitment indices may focus efforts on developing an integrated pest management program with alternative treatments for shrimp recruits with shallow burrows and allow the industry to control them before they become a significant issue.This means the next coronavirus outbreak or new variant could be first detected in our wastewater, scientists say.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists are reporting traces of the COVID-19 variant omicron in sewage from multiple cities across the state of California, including in Southern California.
"Even if a person doesn't even know they are infected, or hasn't gone to get tested in a laboratory, we can detect the signal from the infection in the wastewater. The detection method is very sensitive. We can detect as few as one infection in 100,000 people," said Kara Nelson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.
For the past 14 months, Dr. Nelson's team at UC Berkeley has been monitoring the genetic material of COVID in wastewater.
They're getting their samples from 15 different sewage facilities across the state. Late last week, they sequenced a sample with traces of the omicron variant.
"We currently monitor at 10 different wastewater locations in the Bay Area and at five sites in the Central Valley and Southern California. At one of the Bay Area sites and one of the Southern California sites, we have detected the potential presence of omicron," said Nelson.
The exact location of the site weren't immediately disclosed.
So what is the plan to find other variants?"
"In addition to looking for a specific variant with quantitative PCR, we are also sequencing the wastewater and that allows to look for any mutations that are there even new mutations that we don't know about yet," said Nelson. "It's quite possible that we can detect a new variant in the waste water that hasn't been detected in clinical samples."
The research team, known as the Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, is working 24/7 measuring daily samples of wastewater.
Their latest findings are also pointing to a detection of omicron in multiple cities.
"We have processed over 60 samples of waste water from the Greater Bay Area. The vast majority of those have been non-detect for omicron. We had not detected it, but in three samples, two from Sacramento and one from Merced, we did detect omicron at very low levels," said Alexandria Boehm, a professor of Stanford's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
"What we saw with the delta mutation in wastewater is that it just steadily increased over time, and there was this really strong increase in trend and in its concentration. So we are looking to see if we observe the same thing with the omicron mutation," said Boehm.
Both professors agree there's no risk of COVID in water.
"The virus that causes COVID-19 is very wimpy. It becomes non-infectious very quickly in the wastewater. There is no evidence to indicate that the waste water itself presents a risk for transmission," said Nelson.
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Respecting respectful insolence: Following up on the Andrew Wakefield sues BMJ story, Orac gets amused by Brian Deer along the way.
News from the British Humanist Association: The government's recent revisions to the "model funding agreement" for free schools mean that it would not be possible to establish a school that would teach creationism and Intelligent Design as Science ; Creationists not happy. Stop sniggering at the back...
People in several parts of Uttar Pradesh spent a sleepless night on Monday and police remained on high alert as a rumour that those who slept would turn into stone spread like wildfire. Think that’s weird? A group from Birmingham have been turning to stone for years - for you not coming home! YOU!
Worrying news: Suggesting that inappropriate treatment at private clinics is to blame, a hospital in Pindu has detected four people with totally drug resistant tuberculosis, the first such cases in the country since November last year.
From China Press: Not all dragon babies are successful in life and children born on certain dates are prone to autism according to Feng Shui and Geomancy master Prof David Koh.
According to the UK popular press, new figures showed that the use of anti-depressants and sleeping pills is soaring. Neuroskeptic has a look at the data and suggests a rewording of the headline is in order.
Qualia Soup’s videos have for a long time been some of my most watched and favourite YouTube content. Have a look at Open-mindedness and CriticalThinking by way of an introduction.
From Edzard Ernst at The Guardian: A 'college' founded last year appears to be a smokescreen behind which alternative medicines can hide. Looks like reincarnated Royal woo from where I’m sitting.
You remember Peter Harrison’s excellent talk on The Science of Lucid Dreaming way back in September? Of course you do. Apparently anyone can learn to have lucid dreams, and this e-book tells you how, courtesy of Mind Hacks. The book is on a pay what you want basis, and is Creative Commons licensed so you can copy it and share it as you will.
Reactor Park: Oohh, Aahh, that's how all of this starts, but then later there's the running and screaming” – and puking.
Tobogganing on Nicaragua’s active volcano Cerro Negro: There’s nothing worse than gravel in your mankini.
Whoever did this - you just made my day. (Wipes away tear of gratitude). Our posturing’s, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, etc., etc.
Over the fence, through the tunnels and pipes; now this is Rocket Science.
So you think you know the answer to where do fish live?
New dinosaur species discovered in unusual place.
Mystic Mutts at the Daily Mail.
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