{
  "id": 477421,
  "title": "Cyclospora spreads through human waste – so how did it get on food?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/cyclospora-spreads-through-human-waste-so-how-did-it-get-on-food",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T12:35:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Conversation",
    "slug": "the-conversation",
    "url": "https://theconversation.com/cyclospora-spreads-through-human-waste-so-how-did-it-get-on-food-289020"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "US sewage treatment plants likely don’t get rid of all the disease-causing protozoa, and monitoring discharged wastewater for it is difficult.",
  "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."
}