# Warning for winter illnesses as vaccine rates fall Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/warning-for-winter-illnesses-as-vaccine-rates-fall Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/warning-for-winter-illnesses-as-vaccine-rates-fall.md Podcast: [ABC News Top Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594) Published: 2026-06-07T22:45:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-top-stories/warning-for-winter-illnesses-as-vaccine-rates-fall/106771344 Audio file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/la/Z/8v.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/episodes/warning-for-winter-illnesses-as-vaccine-rates-fall Duration seconds: 167 ## Resource As winter starts to bite, respiratory illnesses are spreading. And off the back of Australia's worst ever flu season, experts are urging people to get vaccinated amid falling immunisation rates. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/episodes/warning-for-winter-illnesses-as-vaccine-rates-fall/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/warning-for-winter-illnesses-as-vaccine-rates-fall.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.