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Secrets of sewage science

The secrets of sewage science and how wastewater can stop the next pandemic.

Maybe listen to this one BEFORE you eat鈥� James is off to meet the sewage scientists trying to stop the next pandemic. He meets the teams that were monitoring 80% of people鈥檚 faeces during Covid-19 and finds out how sewage led to hundreds of thousands of children having an emergency polio vaccine. James needs to collect a sample at a water treatment works and then head to the laboratory鈥� just be glad you can鈥檛 smell a podcast.

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Erika Wright

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28 minutes

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Wed 5 Oct 2022 15:30
成人快手 Radio 4

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