{
  "id": 12678239,
  "title": "WHO Urges Russian Transparency After Second ‘Plague Worker’ Falls Ill",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/who-urges-russian-transparency-after-second-plague-worker-falls-ill",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-07T17:40:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Kyiv Post",
    "slug": "kyiv-post",
    "url": "https://www.kyivpost.com/post/86387"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he has requested additional information from Russia concerning the weekend death of a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. His demand follows media reports that a second employee had come down with “pneumonia of an unknown etiology.”",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "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."
}