Tests conducted at a wastewater treatment plant in Massachusetts have confirmed some people’s worst nightmare: that the Wuhan virus persists in raw sewage.

A biotechnology startup firm known as Biobot Analytics reportedly collected samples from the facility, which is located near an unnamed metropolitan area of Massachusetts, and tested them back in March. They found evidence of the Wuhan virus, and reported their findings in a study published in the journal medRxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20051540v1