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Vernon County adds measles monitoring to wastewater surveillance; reports rise in latent TB cases
Summary
County public health staff said the local wastewater surveillance program will now monitor measles shedding in addition to COVID-19; staff also reported four open latent tuberculosis cases (higher than usual) and a few tickborne illnesses and chlamydia cases for the month.
Vernon County public health staff told the Board of Health that the county’s wastewater surveillance program — which previously tracked COVID-19 levels — will begin monitoring for measles shedding and that the health department is tracking several other communicable-disease trends.
The department said the Viroqua-area wastewater treatment facility has expanded monitoring and that detecting measles RNA in wastewater…
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