A wastewater monitoring pilot covering U.S. FIFA World Cup 2026 host cities — designed to support situational awareness across respiratory, gastrointestinal, vector-borne, and vaccine-preventable pathogens.
The Program
Data shown are from wastewater samples that represent an aggregated estimate of viral abundance in a community. They do not represent individual, clinical tests.
The data are intended to inform the public. They should not be used as a substitute for individual testing and diagnosis.
A Partnership
Biobot is the pioneer and global leader in wastewater epidemiology, transforming sewage infrastructure into a real-time public health observatory. Founded out of a research project at MIT, Biobot provided the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in the U.S. in early 2020. Its pioneering work has expanded to monitor dozens of pathogens and high-risk substances across hundreds of communities.
Building on decades of virology expertise, the Maresso Lab at Baylor College of Medicine pioneered a wastewater sequencing assay that simultaneously screen for over 3,000 human and animal viruses. Their work, published in Nature Communications and awarded the 2024 STAT Madness popular vote, monitors communities across Texas as an early-warning “smoke alarm” for outbreaks.
Data are provided by Biobot Analytics under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). You are free to share and adapt the data for any non-commercial purpose, provided you credit Biobot Analytics and link back to this dashboard.
We would like to thank the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute for allowing data from their program to be published on this dashboard. Please see the TexWEB (Texas Wastewater and Environmental Biomonitoring) dashboard for more insights and information.
