{
  "id": 179904,
  "title": "Africa: Why Inequality, Not The Next Virus, Could Be the World's Greatest Pandemic Threat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/africa-why-inequality-not-the-next-virus-could-be-the-worlds-greatest",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-05T14:03:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202608050586.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "[allAfrica] Inequality doesn't just make pandemics worse; it helps create the conditions for them to spread, persist and return",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}