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Targeted Wastewater Surveillance during the World Athletics Championship, Oregon, USA, 2022[1]

Falender R, Kaya D, Harry M, et al; Sutton M · 2026 · Emerg Infect Dis

Summary

Report of targeted wastewater surveillance run during the 18th World Athletics Championships (Eugene, Oregon, 2022), a large multinational gathering. The panel detected influenza A, SARS-CoV-2, and hepatitis A virus; poliovirus detections were inconclusive; influenza B, hepatitis E, measles, and MERS-CoV were not detected. Concludes wastewater surveillance augments traditional surveillance for mitigating infectious-disease risks at large multinational gatherings.

So what

The American demonstration of event-scoped wastewater surveillance: a practical, consent-free layer that watches an entire multinational event population at once — including pathogens (hepatitis A, polio) that clinical surveillance would catch late or never. For MGMI's surveillance pages this is the modern complement to Memish's antibiotic-resistance concern and the Johansson crowd-model-to-epidemiology bridge: environmental sampling as the event-medicine early-warning system, with a concrete deployed panel to cite. Pairs with the Purple Guide pandemic chapter's monitoring provisions.

Key findings

  • Wastewater panel deployed at 2022 World Athletics Championships, Eugene OR
  • Detected: influenza A, SARS-CoV-2, hepatitis A; inconclusive poliovirus signals
  • Not detected: influenza B, hep E, measles, MERS-CoV - negative results also informative
  • Positions wastewater surveillance as an augmenting layer for multinational events

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