UNLV researcher Edwin Oh holds a pipette in his lab on campus.

UNLV Wastewater Surveillance Program Expands to Test for Flu Strains

Local partnership grows to 20 states; monitoring begins in October with implications for future influenza vaccine development.

UNLV researcher Edwin Oh, pictured above in the Genomic and Precision Medicine Lab on March 13, 2018, will be working with UNLV students, research assistants, and community collaborators this fall to keep watch for flu strains in Southern Nevada wastewater to better target future influenza vaccinations. (Josh Hawkins/UNLV Photo Services)

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