{
  "id": 2156504,
  "title": "County surveillance failed to detect that measles transmission reached epidemic threshold in schools",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/county-surveillance-failed-to-detect-that-measles-transmission",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature Medicine",
    "slug": "nature-medicine",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04612-2"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Nature Medicine, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04612-2 A nationwide analysis of measles vaccination records from more than 50,000 US schools shows that measles transmission risk crossed the threshold that can lead to epidemics at the school level in the 2–3 years before the 2025–2026 outbreaks, whereas county-level estimates always remained below that threshold.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Nature Medicine",
        "title": "County, district and community-level measles transmission in the United States in 2013−2025",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/county-district-and-community-level-measles-transmission-in-the",
        "published": "2026-08-18T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}