The Ebola cases in the United States brought attention to the risks to sanitation workers posed by pathogens in wastewater.But Ebola is not the biggest threat to those workers’ health, especially since Ebola cases have disappeared from the U.S. and have significantly declined even in Africa.Instead, the biggest emerging pathogen threat in wastewater is from “super bugs,” bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, according to Matthew Arduino of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Arduino summarized pathogen threats and remedies on Tuesday during a WEFTEC technical session, “The Ebola Virus and Emerging Pathogens from Infections Waste in Wastewater
