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Dallas County Health update: COVID, flu and wastewater surveillance rising; county monitoring avian flu case
Summary
Public health officials told the Commissioners Court Dallas is seeing increases in COVID and flu indicators, continues wastewater surveillance for multiple pathogens and is monitoring the first U.S. human fatality tied to avian flu reported in Louisiana.
Dallas County Health and Human Services briefed the Commissioners Court Jan. 7 on respiratory pathogens and wastewater surveillance, reporting rising indicators for influenza and COVID and continued monitoring for other pathogens including avian flu.
Dr. Philip Wong (Dallas County Health) said wastewater surveillance and other indicators show increases in COVID since early December and that flu test positivity had climbed to about 24.4% for the week ending Dec. 28, with 92…
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