NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
Those locations should provide more information about respiratory infections coming out of South America, Africa and Asia, particularly, CDC officials said.
But they are given a COVID-19 home test kit to take with them, CDC officials say.
That testing is for COVID-19, but CDC officials are evaluating the possibility of monitoring wastewater for other things, Walker said.
The CDC program has a current budget of about $37 million.
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