{
  "id": 12577220,
  "title": "Siberia plague outbreak is an 'isolated incident', virologist says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/siberia-plague-outbreak-is-an-isolated-incident-virologist-says",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-07T07:17:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/video/2026/10/07/siberia-plague-outbreak-is-an-isolated-incident-virologist-says"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst says that while people may think of plague as “something medieval”, cases are reported every year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar. However, he says the laboratory link makes this incident “a little more serious”.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}