Your viruses fly with you, and scientists could use them to spot the next pandemic

People travel regularly, for work, tourism, or family matters. They cross countries and oceans, and the viruses and bacteria present in their bodies travel with them. A new pilot programme by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Preventi.

Testing aeroplane wastewater can detect circulating pathogens weeks earlier than traditional global pathogen surveillance allows, offering a potential early-warning tool for global outbreak preparedness, a US–UK pilot study found.