The Role of Fear, Hope, Message Fatigue, and Message Shocking Value in Promoting the Public’s Understanding and Support Toward #covid19 Wastewater Monitoring: Experimental Study Background: Although wastewater monitoring is an effective, nonintrusive public health strategy for tracking community-level #covid19 prevalence, there has been limited research on public perceptions of this novel surveillance method. A significant gap exists in understanding how to design effective communication campaigns to gain public support for wastewater monitoring and persuade individuals to take preventive actions based on the data. Objectives: This study aimed to examine the impact of emotional appeals (fear vs hope) and pronoun use (we vs you) on public support for #covid19 wastewater monitoring, intentions to discuss the intervention, and intentions to engage in preventive behaviors. Methods: An online 2 (emotional appeal: fear vs hope) × 2 (pronoun use: you-language vs we-language) between-subjects experiment with a control condition was conducted. A total of 603 US residents were recruited via Prolific in July 2023. Participants were randomly assigned to view 1 of 5 message stimuli and then completed a survey measuring emotional responses, message judgments (fatigue and shocking value), and the primary outcome variables. Results: Fear appeals led to greater support and stronger intentions to engage in preventive behaviors than hope appeals, while pronoun use had no significant effect. Additionally, message fatigue and shock value mediated the relationship between the message-evoked emotions and the outcome variables, whereby message fatigue was negatively associated with the outcome variables, and message shock value was positively correlated with policy support and communication intention. Conclusions: The findings suggest that while fear-based messages are effective, communication strategies should also aim to mitigate message fatigue to sustain public engagement and support for long-term public health initiatives.

JMIR Formative Res: The Role of Fear, Hope, Message Fatigue, and Message Shocking Value in Promoting the Public’s Understanding and Support Toward #covid19 Wastewater Monitoring: Experimental Study #COVID19 #WastewaterMonitoring #PublicHealth #HealthCommunication #CommunityHealth

Continuation of wastewater monitoring secured The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) has been newly commissioned by the Federal Office of Public Health as the National Reference Centre for Wastewater Monitoring. Thi...

Eawag has been newly commissioned by #BAG as the National Reference Centre for #Wastewater Monitoring.

👉 www.eawag.ch/en/info/port...

@trj2.bsky.social @ethz.ch #wastewatermonitoring

Hamilton County health commissioner warns influenza remains unpredictable; wastewater monitoring shows promise Hamilton County Health Commissioner Greg Kesterman told commissioners that Southwest Ohio has seen an unusually high flu hospitalization season—about 931 hospitalizations, 302 in December—and that wastewater monitoring at Little Miami and Mill Creek correlated with hospitalization peaks and can serve as an early warning.

Hamilton County's health commissioner warns that this flu season is far from over, with hospitalizations two and a half times the five-year average!

Learn more here

#HamiltonCounty #OH #PublicHealth #DiseasePrevention #CitizenPortal #WastewaterMonitoring

screenshot from the website linked in toot. We see the prevalence of influenza virus in Nuremberg's wastewater as a graph showing the last 24 months. The chart goes from very low, low, moderate, high, to very high. It is worth noting that, unlike the last two winters, this winter has seen no influenza B in Nuremberg's wastewater – only influenza A.

Prevalance of influenza A in Nuremberg very high since 8 December. So for, like what? 6 weeks. Not good.
https://bay-voc.lgl.bayern.de/abwassermonitoring

#Abwassermonitoring #WasteWaterMonitoring
#InfluenzaIsNotOver

Screenshot from the website linked in toot. The SARS-CoV-2 variants found in Nuremberg's wastewater on 8 December 2025 are as follows Omicron BA.3: 4.82% Omicron NB.1.8.1: 26.02% Others: 4.64% Omicron JN.1: 7.24% Recombinant Lineages: 6.7% Omicron XFG: 49.19%

Covid variants found in Nuremberg's wastewater on 8 December 2025
https://bay-voc.lgl.bayern.de/abwassermonitoring

JN.1 is still around!

#WasteWaterMonitoring

Read the @crew-waters.bsky.social report "Review of psychoactive substances wastewater monitoring approaches
and recommendations for the feasibility of applying different approaches in Scotland" coauthored by our very own @mcmayer.bsky.social #WastewaterMonitoring

screenshot from the website linked in toot. Two graphs showing the relative amount of SARS-CoV-2 in Nuremberg's waste water - comparatively low at the moment - and the variants therein.

It looks like the lab that tests which variants are in our waste water in Bavaria was on holiday for most of June. The latest sample to be tested is from a month ago and it is almost 50% so-called recombinant lineages. The rest is Omicron JN.1 (13.2%) and Omicron NB1 […]

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New perspectives thanks to wastewater monitoring Wastewater monitoring became well known during the coronavirus period from 2020, when Eawag and its partners began monitoring whether and which coronaviruses could be detected in wastewater throughout...

Is a new variant of the coronavirus spreading? Is there a major flu epidemic or is monkeypox on the way? Wastewater monitoring can answer such questions 💪

www.eawag.ch/en/info/port...

#wastewatermonitoring @trj2.bsky.social #eawag

Alberta wastewater unlocked key information about COVID-19. Could it help with measles too?

Alberta wastewater unlocked key information about COVID-19. Could it help with measles too?

CBC News
July 16, 2025
By Jennifer Lee

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/albe...

#Alberta #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #measles #WastewaterMonitoring

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from aircraft to citywide monitoring - Nature Communications SARS-COV-2 wastewater surveillance may enable early identification of emerging variants. Here, authors compare variants detected in wastewater from Stockholm city, its airport, aircraft, the wider air...

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from aircraft to citywide monitoring. #wastewatermonitoring #wastewater #aircraft #SARSCov #Covid #disease #health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vote #fordfailedontario OUT! No thanks to #maplemaga Ford and Elons #starlink 🚩🚩🚩 #boozedoggle #greenbelt #sciencecentre #ontarioplace #therme #rankedballots #stickerrebates #bribecheques#longtermcare
#nurses #teachers #wastewatermonitoring
#80000homeless

Sequenziamento acque reflue: le varianti dominanti nel 2024 nel depuratore di Castiglione Torinese | Arpa Piemonte

SARS-CoV-2 variants from the Turin (Italy) WWTP in November and December 2024

www.arpa.piemonte.it/scheda-infor...

#WBE
#SARSCoV2
#wastewatermonitoring

Here we go again... #flu #fluseason #influenza #rsv #respiratorysyncytialvirus #respiratoryillness #covid19 #coronavirus #novelvirus #pandemic #maskssavelives #maskmandate #maskup #massachusetts #protectpublichealth #getvaccinated #wastewatermonitoring

COVID Update: Map Reveals States at Greatest Risk As Christmas Nears

Six U...

#COVID19 #PublicHealth #WastewaterMonitoring #CDCUpdates #HealthSafety

The 🇩🇪 coalition breakdown must not lead to the #wastewatermonitoring project #AMELAG ending on December 31, 2024.

It is needed.
For example, bridging the gap until the 2025 federal budget in summer 2025 is still legally possible. ✍️
share, talk/write about it:

Let's take this thing to the international level. 🙌 Because #PublicHealth doesn't end at the national border
📢 #Wastewatermonitoring #AMELAG petition goes world!🔊 #bringbackPublicHealth @DrEricDing 👇
Everyone can sign- it concerns us all #ActsOfKindness
1000 ✍️✨️done🤩💪
Let's go for 30.000 ✨️✍️🏋

Petition unterschreiben Sichern der Finanzierung des AMELAG-Anschlussprojekts im Bundeshaushalt 2025

Let's take this thing to the international level 🙌 #PublicHealth doesn't end at the national border

📢 #Wastewatermonitoring #AMELAG petition goes world!

#bringbackPublicHealth
please ✏️ @DrEricDing
www.change.org/p/sichern-de...

everyone can ✍️ & share

- it concerns all of us #surveillance

Dr. Cassius Lockett, District Deputy Health Officer-Operations for the Southern Nevada Health District, relies on the flexibility of #wastewatermonitoring in Las Vegas, a city of more than 2 million residents and millions of visitors. #PublicHealth 🛟😷🧪
 
Read more. rb.gy/c9nr9e

Workflow to facilitate the detection of new psychoactive substances and drugs of abuse in influent urban wastewater The complexity around the dynamic markets for new psychoactive substances (NPS) forces researchers to develop and apply innovative analytical strategi…

Workflow to facilitate the detection of new psychoactive substances and drugs of abuse in influent urban wastewater. #wastewatersurveillance #wastewater #drugs #newpsychoactivesubstances #NPS #wastewatermonitoring #druguse www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...