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  "id": 16045705,
  "title": "Hell in a handbasin—warning on hospital hygiene",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/hell-in-a-handbasin-warning-on-hospital-hygiene",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T12:20:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-hell-handbasin-hospital-hygiene.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Handbasins help prevent infections in hospitals but new research from Flinders University warns that contaminated basins in health care might put patients at risk and have implications for outbreaks of superbugs.",
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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."
}