Wastewater testing reveals elevated norovirus presence in Wheeling

Описание: Ahead of cold and flu season, the Ohio County Health Department released the numbers for some viruses that are coming along with winter.

Over the weekend, the department reported that levels of norovirus are elevated and considered high in the community.

Specific diseases and their identification are evaluated in the Ohio County area through wastewater surveillance at the city of Wheeling's water treatment plant. The plant serves most of Ohio County and Benwood.

"When you create a program where you can test the water to see what’s in it, it really has a large benefit,” Howard Gamble, health department administrator, said. “In this case, we're testing for specific diseases. Flu, RSV, COVID and the bigger one, which is interesting, was norovirus.”

Gamble said norovirus is often partnered with stomach flu, but is in fact its own virus.

"Norovirus is a virus that will attack you, more than likely will cause you to have an

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