In time for the winter and holiday travel season, a number of airports across the United States will now by looking to surveil the spread of the flu and the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), which is building off of installed protocols used to track movement of Covid-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained the move in a press release yesterday, which states:
CDC is conducting a new pilot on samples it is collecting as part of its Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance (TGS) program that will provide early detection of flu, RSV, and select other respiratory viruses, in addition to SARS-CoV-2. The pilot, which will last for several months, will be implemented by Ginkgo Bioworks and XpresCheck. Samples that test positive for these viruses will be sequenced and uploaded to public databases to provide valuable information to public health officials and policy makers.
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