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  "id": 3600933,
  "title": "Border town lawyer labels Victoria's bird flu handling a 'scandal'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/border-town-lawyer-labels-victorias-bird-flu-handling-a-scandal",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-26T21:31:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News AU",
    "slug": "abc-news-au",
    "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-27/victorian-bird-flu-response-poor-compared-to-south-australia/107079324"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "What determines if suspected bird flu victims are collected or left on the shore? Near the Victorian-SA border, it comes down to roughly three kilometres.",
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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."
}