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  "id": 12664897,
  "title": "Ocean, desert rainfall and a parasitic disease: Researchers connect patterns",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/ocean-desert-rainfall-and-a-parasitic-disease-researchers-connect",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-07T16:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-ocean-rainfall-parasitic-disease-patterns.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Climate does more than shape the weather. It can influence when and where infectious diseases emerge by changing how disease-carrying vectors and animal hosts survive and behave. Scientists use weather data to anticipate some disease risks days or weeks ahead. But forecasting how those risks will change across seasons and years remains difficult. We asked Adrià San José Plana, a researcher in…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}