CDC to expand disease surveillance at four major US airports to include flu, RSV | CNN

CDC to expand disease surveillance at four major US airports to include flu, RSV | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its infectious disease surveillance program at four major US airports to more than 30 pathogens, including flu, RSV and other respiratory viruses. Manav Tanneeru CNN

...The Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program, led by CDC’s Travelers’ Health Branch, was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to detect new SARS-CoV-2 variants and other pathogens through nasal swab and wastewater sample collection from arriving international travelers at US airports. ...

ALSO SEE: The expansion comes ahead of the fall and winter months in the United States when viruses that cause respiratory diseases usually circulate more heavily.