{
  "id": 3546069,
  "title": "Wastewater may offer an early warning of pertussis outbreaks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/wastewater-may-offer-an-early-warning-of-pertussis-outbreaks",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-26T16:40:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-wastewater-early-pertussis-outbreaks.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Pertussis, or whooping cough, continues to cause periodic outbreaks worldwide and can be especially dangerous for infants who have not completed vaccination. Yet conventional surveillance depends on people seeking medical care, being tested, diagnosed and reported, which can delay recognition of changes in community transmission.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}