![Standard Water Treatment Technique Removes and Inactivates an Enveloped Virus](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fenveloped-virus.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=620&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=1024&s=8351df1db9c7351b80db7e3a29799653)
An enveloped virus, Φ6 (left), clumps together and becomes damaged by conventional iron coagulation (right). (Image courtesy of the American Chemical Society)
Enveloped viruses have been detected in untreated wastewater, but scientists still don't fully understand the fate and infectivity of these viruses during water purification at treatment plants. Now, researchers reporting in American Chemical Society's Environmental Science &...