{"id":734664,"date":"2022-09-09T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734664"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:35:20","slug":"covid-19-drugs-persist-in-wastewater-may-pose-risk-to-aquatic-organisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734664","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 drugs persist in wastewater, may pose risk to aquatic organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients\u2014including remdesivir, dexamethasone and antibiotics for associated bacterial infections\u2014persist through wastewater treatment and may occur in waterways at levels high enough to negatively affect aquatic organisms, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. The findings highlight the broad utility of wastewater surveillance as a tool for monitoring the effects of human health on water quality and ecosystem health.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-covid-drugs-persist-wastewater-pose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">COVID-19 drugs persist in wastewater, may pose risk to aquatic organisms<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients\u2014including remdesivir, dexamethasone and antibiotics for associated bacterial infections\u2014persist through wastewater treatment and may occur in waterways at levels high enough to negatively affect&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}