{
  "id": 12161664,
  "title": "Worries grow about suspected plague outbreak in Russia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/worries-grow-about-suspected-plague-outbreak-in-russia",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T13:12:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6129050-russia-pneumonic-plague-outbreak-monitored/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Russian authorities and Trump administration officials are monitoring a possible pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia, after a laboratory worker died of an undisclosed illness. The woman, in her late 20s, reportedly worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Institute of Siberia and the Far East and died of pneumonia of unknown origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, a Russian health...",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Kyiv Independent",
        "title": "Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/plague-death-triggers-quarantine-mask-mandates-in-russias-irkutsk",
        "published": "2026-10-04T18:42:07.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Meduza (English)",
        "title": "Officials in Russia’s Irkutsk region advised against traveling to a town where a hospital patient may have died of plague. They later deleted the post.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/officials-in-russias-irkutsk-region-advised-against-traveling-to-a",
        "published": "2026-10-05T07:03:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
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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."
}