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  "id": 2417169,
  "title": "Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/rare-south-american-diseases-offer-clues-on-the-next-pandemic",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-21T16:06:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/world/americas/rare-south-american-diseases-climate-change-pandemics.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread.",
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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."
}