PREDICT Act
Sen. Scott Introduces Bipartisan PREDICT Act to Track Disease Outbreaks Through Wastewater
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Tribal health departments are explicitly listed as eligible entities for wastewater surveillance grants. Many tribal communities are in rural areas with non-standard wastewater systems that this bill specifically targets, potentially giving them earlier warning of disease outbreaks they might otherwise miss.
“be a State, Tribal, or local health department, or a partnership between such a health department and other public and private entities”
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Senator Angus King and colleagues reintroduced the PREDICT Act to authorize wastewater infectious disease surveillance at the CDC. The bill focuses on helping public health officials identify outbreaks of RSV and measles before symptoms appear, particularly in underserved rural communities.
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PREDICT Act
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