{
  "id": 18080195,
  "title": "The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/the-next-global-pandemic-could-be-brewing-on-a-mink-farm-in-utah-and-18080195",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-04T06:00:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/04/global-pandemic-mink-farm-utah-farming-livestock"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mink farms are the perfect petri dishes for deadly flu strains to emerge. Yet officials appear to be protecting business interests over human lives Could this be ground zero? Could it be the spot where the next pandemic begins? It’s certainly a candidate, not least because the chain of events that could trigger a plague far worse than Covid-19 looks like the opening sequence of a disaster movie.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}