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It didn’t smell as bad as I thought it would. Sort of like going-bad ocean water but without the salt. It doesn’t look as nasty as I thought, either, but it’s important to maintain a sense of professional clinical distance even though I’m seeing and smelling the sewage of half a million people.

By analysing sewage, scientists can detect disease outbreaks like Covid-19 and mpox, allowing for early intervention.

If you’ve been feeling poorly this month, you’re not alone. New numbers from the Southern Nevada Health District show Influenza A and RSV rising across the Valley.

“Can you imagine a day when you turn on your faucet and no water comes out?” The hypothetical question, posed by a research team at ������, is called a “Day Zero” scenario. It sounds like the plot of a doomsday apocalypse series but it’s not as unimaginable - or as far-fetched - as a Hollywood screenplay might seem.

Tourists flocking to Las Vegas over the July 4 holiday weekend helped fuel a surge in COVID infections, experts say. “We have an increase in viral illnesses for the Fourth of July in particular. For the summer holidays, we are always prepared for an increase in tourists visiting Las Vegas this weekend,” said Dr. Ketan Patel, medical director of the UMC Adult Emergency Department.

Tourists who flocked in droves to Las Vegas over the Fourth of July holiday weekend helped spur a rise in COVID infections, experts say. “We have a surge in viral illnesses for July 4 in particular. For summer holidays, we’re always prepared for a surge in tourists that visit Las Vegas this weekend,” said Dr. Ketan Patel, medical director of UMC’s Adult Emergency Department.

������ medicine professor Edwin Oh had a simple question for his young students. “Do you see green cells?” If they said yes — and, happily, they all did — that meant they had successfully transfused a special protein into a small dish of human kidney cells that allowed the cells to glow green when placed under a beam of blue light emitting from a high-powered fluorescent microscope.

Nevada is one of seven states with “very high” levels of COVID in its wastewater, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data released Thursday by the CDC showed that California, Oregon, Texas, Arkansas, Florida and Maryland were also detecting “very high” levels of COVID in their wastewater.