Worst diphtheria outbreak in decades crosses state borders
Australia is experiencing its worst diphtheria outbreak in decades, which has now spread into three states. The outbreak originated in the Northern Territory and has raised significant public health concerns. Authorities are working to contain the situation and prevent further spread of the disease.
- ▪The diphtheria outbreak is the worst Australia has seen in decades.
- ▪It has crossed state borders from the Northern Territory into three states.
- ▪Health authorities are actively working to contain the outbreak.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 10 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Australia's worst diphtheria outbreak 'for decades' spreads to Qld, SA — ABC News (Australia)
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| Original publisher | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Canonical URL | https://www.smh.com.au/national/worst-diphtheria-outbreak-in-decades-crosses-state-borders-20260519-p5zyu7.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 20:49:00 +1000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T10:54:57.513Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T10:54:57.513Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Jv_jT_MfXE1x · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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