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ArticleJournal of water and health2026

Community-level wastewater influenza concentrations and school attendance in Jefferson County, Kentucky (2022-2025).

Anna Dusterhoff, Lauren B Anderson, Rochelle H Holm, Emily Reece, Eva Stone, Ted Smith

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Article in Journal of water and health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Anna DusterhoffCenter for Healthy Air Water and Soil, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, 302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8029-2838
Lauren B AndersonCenter for Healthy Air Water and Soil, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, 302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0556-7260
Rochelle H HolmCenter for Healthy Air Water and Soil, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, 302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202, USA E-mail: rochelle.holm@louisville.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8849-1390
Emily ReeceJefferson County Public Schools, 3301 Stober Road, Louisville, KY 40213, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7671-4742
Eva StoneJefferson County Public Schools, 3301 Stober Road, Louisville, KY 40213, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6527-7957
Ted SmithCenter for Healthy Air Water and Soil, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, 302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-4294

Funding

Louisville Metro GovernmentOwsley Brown II Family Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Community-transmitted seasonal infectious diseases pose a significant challenge to school systems across the nation. School attendance is central to student learning progress and is a key public health indicator. We aimed to evaluate the incremental explanatory value of community-level seasonal influenza wastewater concentrations for estimating school absenteeism within the corresponding geographic sewershed in Louisville, Kentucky (USA). We used community wastewater seasonal influenza concentrations from a catchment area that geographically encompassed 51 public elementary, middle, and high schools. These data were compared with daily school-level attendance records provided by Jefferson County Public Schools for three academic years (2022-2025). Two random forest models were developed that incorporated community influenza A wastewater concentrations, environmental variables (e.g., rainfall and maximum temperature), school-level attendance, and total enrollment to predict attendance outcomes. Across the sewershed, the all-schools model (

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AbsenteeismInfluenza, HumanSchoolsWastewaterHumansKentuckyWastewaterinfluenzarandom forestschoolssewershedwastewater-based epidemiology

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PMID42378415

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