二宮尊徳とSCAN (Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network)

二宮尊徳は百姓の便所を見て、彼らの生活の様子をMonitorしていた・・と聞いたことがあります。それほど下水・排泄物は情報の宝庫という事になるでしょう。



それの現代版がthe Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, 略称 SCANということになるでしょうか？

Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network (SCAN)

Learn how communities across the US can use wastewater-based epidemiology to track Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.

Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network (SCAN)

 

Sewage SurveillanceはCOVID-19の調査に限らずサル痘にも使用されます。

COVID Sewage Surveillance Labs Join the Hunt for Monkeypox

Wastewater testing has proved a reliable early alarm bell for covid outbreaks. US researchers are now adapting the approach to track the explosive spread of monk...

Medscape

 

そしてロンドンやニューヨークでは再起を誓うポリオウイルスの調査にも

'Silent' spread of polio in New York drives CDC to consider additional vaccinations for some people

A polio case identified in New York last month is "just the very, very tip of the iceberg" and an indication there "must be several hundred cases ...

CNN