{
  "id": 13697137,
  "title": "Following Russia plague scare, India put its national laboratory network on alert, stocks adequate life-saving antibioti",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/following-russia-plague-scare-india-put-its-national-laboratory",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-11T10:47:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/india-puts-lab-network-on-alert-after-russia-plague-scare-11791698998489.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "India has activated its national laboratory network and reviewed supplies of crucial antibiotics, such as tetracyclines used to treat plague, in response to a recent laboratory worker's death in Russia's Siberia region, according to government officials. The pathogen exposure incident occurred in the Siberia region, raising concerns about the potential spread of the plague.",
  "summary": "India has alerted its national diagnostic laboratory network and state-level reference laboratories following reports of a laboratory worker's death in Russia after suspected pathogen exposure.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "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."
}