‘UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY: CORONAVIRUS IN WASTEWATER OF SELECTED PEOPLES IN ECUADOR '10/22/2020 We are purchasing 100 diagnostic kits to detect coronavirus in wastewater from selected cities in Ecuador. The kit was developed by a Massachusetts (MA) company, Biobot Analytics (https://www.biobot.io/about_us)1, in collaboration with researchers from MIT, Harvard, and B&W Hospital. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, can be transmitted through the digestive system and could end up in the aquatic ecosystem environment, as shown in Figure 1 of the Naddeu & Liu paper.2 The kit was tested first in wastewater collected from a major urban treatment facility in MA. We hope that these kits will detect the virus in sewage from selected towns where human diagnostic tests have not yet been performed. The results will be published immediately on the FUCOBI website and sent to government offices and universities for further epidemiological studies. Source: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ew/d0ew90015j?page=search#imgfig1 The results will help local authorities plan for COVID-19 before symptoms of the disease appear, and save lives. Interested in participating in this project, please contact Mrs. Miriam Alcivar Arteaga ([email protected]), President of FUCOBI, who will be in charge of distributing the kits to the local authorities in charge of the wastewater facilities, university professors , drinking water and sewerage companies, NGOs and citizens interested in helping to collect the samples. Join the project, participate with samples from your city. This is a project that applies the holistic concept of epidemiological 'ONE HEALTH' to help save the lives of Ecuadorians.
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