By Ethan Covey
An ongoing outbreak of enterovirus D68 has been tied to sewage water in Leicester, U.K., according to research presented at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (Poster L0032).
“Enterovirus (EV) D68 and EV A71 are notable for their role in causing epidemics of hand-foot-and-mouth (HFMD) diseases in children,” said Nahed Elhefnawy, MD, a microbiology registrar at the University Hospitals of Leicester