Our latest publication on the concentration o fwater and wastewater samples for the detection and quantification of viruses is now available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3261-y…

Our latest publication on the concentration o fwater and wastewater samples for the detection and quantification of viruses is now available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/mps1030035. …

Our latest publication on the viromic analysis of wastewater input to a river catchment revealing the diversity of RNA viruses is now available online at http://msystems.asm.org/content/3/3/e00025-18…

Our lates paper on the spatial and temporal distribution of enteric viruses in the water environment has been published and now available online at https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0048969718311951…

14th March 2018
Education Centre and Main Hall, Royal Geographical Society, London

The VIRAQUA and RESERVOIRS projects are joining together to provide a forum for the discussion of viruses and antimicrobial resistant bacteria in UK waters. Prominent researchers from both …

By Luke Hillary , Bangor University

While viruses can escape wastewater treatment plants through treated water, this is not their only route to freedom. Sludge is the solid waste produced from our sewage system and this is often used on …

 By Dr Myra Hosmillo, Cambridge University

Human norovirus is the leading viral gastrointestinal pathogen worldwide causing diarrhoea and vomiting, known as the “two-bucket disease”. It is highly contagious and it only takes as few as 18 viral particles to infect …