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One in eight cancers caused by infections worldwide

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
8h ago
Final
Outlets
5
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
4

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Perfil Argentina · Spanish 3 Oct, 17:26 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Eesti (1) · Português (1) · Română (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 48 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Perfil, 3 Oct, 17:26 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with Digi24.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Digi24.
  4. Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

48 of 48 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

60%40%

  • Americas 3 outlets · 3 countries · 60%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%

First movers

  1. Perfil 3 Oct, 17:26 UTC
  2. Digi24 +34h 35m
  3. La Tercera +39h 37m
  4. CNN Brasil +45h 42m
  5. Postimees +47h 54m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Common infections linked to one in eight cancer cases globally, 1 to 3 Oct 2026, 3 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Argentina, Brazil, Chile. Europe 2: Estonia, Romania. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Spanish, Estonian, Portuguese, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Perfil, 3 Oct 2026, 17:26 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 18:31 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 17:20 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.62, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Common infections linked to one in eight cancer cases globally. Continued by 5 patogena tiho pokreću rak, a jedan virus je nov na listi: Lancet studija otkrila skriveno poreklo 2,3 miliona karcinoma godišnje. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 386 2.71 5 5 4 4 4.1

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Started 3 Oct, 18:31 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 17:20 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 5 Oct, 15:07 UTC
    Cerca de 1 em cada 8 casos de câncer no mundo estão ligados a infecções
  • La Tercera Chile 5 Oct, 09:03 UTC
    Las 5 infecciones responsables de más de 2 millones de casos de cáncer, según un estudio
  • Perfil Argentina 3 Oct, 17:26 UTC
    El enemigo invisible que causa uno de cada 8 tumores en el mundo

Europe 2 outlets

  • Postimees Estonia 5 Oct, 17:20 UTC
    Vaiksed vaenlased: need nakkushaigused võivad tekitada vähki – ja tuntuim neist pole üldse esikohal
  • Digi24 Romania 5 Oct, 04:00 UTC
    Studiu: Un caz de cancer din opt este provocat de infecții. Cum pot fi prevenite acestea
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