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  "id": 12105151,
  "title": "White House Monitoring Reported Plague Case and Quarantine in Russia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/white-house-monitoring-reported-plague-case-and-quarantine-in-russia",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T07:51:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Kyiv Post",
    "slug": "kyiv-post",
    "url": "https://www.kyivpost.com/post/86114"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case in Russia after a 27-year-old anti-plague institute worker died and 189 people were hospitalized following contact with her. Russian authorities have not confirmed the diagnosis, while a hospital in the Irkutsk region has been placed under quarantine.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Meduza (English)",
        "title": "White House says it’s monitoring reports of plague in Russia, ‘assessing options’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/white-house-says-its-monitoring-reports-of-plague-in-russia-assessing",
        "published": "2026-10-05T08:02:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "IOL",
        "title": "Russia’s suspected pneumonic plague case: What is it and how does it spread?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/russias-suspected-pneumonic-plague-case-what-is-it-and-how-does-it",
        "published": "2026-10-05T08:43:00.000Z"
      }
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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."
}