Three new papers published…..

Chigor, V. N., Digwo, D. C., Adediji, A., Chidebelu, P. E., Chigor, C. B., Ugwu, K. O., Ibangha, I. I., Street, R., & Farkas, K. (2024). Epidemiology of norovirus infection in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of virology, …

New paper on normalisation is published……

Cameron Pellett, Kata Farkas, Rachel C. Williams, Matthew J. Wade, Andrew J. Weightman, Eleanor Jameson, Gareth Cross, Davey L. Jones (2024) Multi-factor normalisation of viral counts from wastewater improves the detection accuracy of viral disease in the community. Environmental Technology …

New perspectives paper published on plastics and pathogens

Oliver, D.M., Metcalf, R., Jones, D.L., Matallana-Surget, S., Thomas, D.N., Robins, P., Tulloch, C.L., Cotterell, B.M., Williams, G., ChristieOleza, J.A., Quilliam, R.S., (2024) Plastic pollution and human pathogens: towards a conceptual shift in risk management at bathing water and beach …

FSA visit

Was great to host the UK Food Standards Agency today and show them round the national wastewater facility.…

new paper out on AMR around WWTPs

Paul B.L. GeorgeLuke S. HillarySamantha LeclercEmily C. CooledgeJoanie LemieuxCaroline Duchaine, and Davey L. Jones. Needles in haystacks: monitoring the potential escape of bioaerosolised antibacterial resistance genes from wastewater …

AMR Digital Hub Launch Event

The team attended the launch event of the AMR Digital Health Hub in London this week where we presented our AMR work on the hospital-environment linkage. We also hosted the expert panel on environmental AMR on behalf of Rachel McKendry …

GLOWACON meeting Brussels 2024

Great to attend GLOWACON 2024 in Brussels. Thanks to all the people we met from the different WBE programmes around the world including South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, Norway, USA, Germany, Canada to name but a few. Thanks to Bernd Gawlik …

Wales Health Science Conference

Was great to present the Welsh Government funded WBE work this week at the Wales Health Science Conference in Cardiff (#WSACsymposium2024) and meet colleagues from Public Health Wales.