{"as_of":"2026-10-07T17:01:21Z","run":"run-1791392481-1791392612","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","cite":"Plague News, \"Plague outbreak in Irkutsk region, Russia\", updated 7 October 2026, 17:01 UTC, https://plaguenews.com/","data":{"facts":["f-01m4b9v1f49q07cc5m593zf0c2","f-01m4b9v1f43ncyac20h4jm5mr7","f-01m4b9v1f43mzg4gct09k0q51r","f-01m4b9v1f4m8rx84ant2p7te1p","f-01m4b9v1f4bc4vegkmr8cq0b1g","f-01m4b9v1f48khxymsq4s8ntbem"],"facts_detail":[{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-1007","id":"f-01m4b9v1f49q07cc5m593zf0c2","machine_written":true,"names":["Tourism community representatives","Murmansk region"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://runews24.ru/murmansk/05/10/2026/inostrannyie-turistyi-stali-sprashivat-o-chume-pered-poezdkami-v-murmanskuyu-oblast"],"status":"reported","text":"Tourism community representatives said foreign tourists had started asking about plague before trips to the Murmansk region."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"detail_of":"f-01m4b9v1f49q07cc5m593zf0c2","disputed":false,"event":"e-1007","id":"f-01m4b9v1f43ncyac20h4jm5mr7","machine_written":true,"names":["Tourism community representatives","Irkutsk region"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://runews24.ru/murmansk/05/10/2026/inostrannyie-turistyi-stali-sprashivat-o-chume-pered-poezdkami-v-murmanskuyu-oblast"],"status":"reported","text":"Tourism community representatives linked the increased interest to online reports of an alleged pneumonic plague case in Irkutsk region."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-1007","id":"f-01m4b9v1f43mzg4gct09k0q51r","machine_written":true,"names":["Irkutsk region"],"read_with_skepticism":true,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[{"id":"concealment_record","label":"Record of concealment","why":"It rests on authorities with a documented record of concealing outbreaks: Soviet and Russian authorities denied the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak of 1979 until 1992; Chinese authorities hid SARS in 2003."}],"sources":["https://runews24.ru/murmansk/05/10/2026/inostrannyie-turistyi-stali-sprashivat-o-chume-pered-poezdkami-v-murmanskuyu-oblast"],"status":"reported","text":"Official information did not confirm reports of plague in the Irkutsk region."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"detail_of":"f-01m4b9v1f43mzg4gct09k0q51r","disputed":false,"event":"e-1007","id":"f-01m4b9v1f4m8rx84ant2p7te1p","machine_written":true,"names":["TASS","Rospotrebnadzor","Irkutsk region"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"confirmed","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://runews24.ru/murmansk/05/10/2026/inostrannyie-turistyi-stali-sprashivat-o-chume-pered-poezdkami-v-murmanskuyu-oblast"],"status":"confirmed","text":"TASS reported that Rospotrebnadzor had found pneumonia of unknown aetiology in an anti-plague institute employee in Irkutsk region."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-1007","id":"f-01m4b9v1f4bc4vegkmr8cq0b1g","machine_written":true,"names":["Specialists","Angara region"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://runews24.ru/murmansk/05/10/2026/inostrannyie-turistyi-stali-sprashivat-o-chume-pered-poezdkami-v-murmanskuyu-oblast"],"status":"reported","text":"Specialists described the epidemiological situation in the Angara region as stable."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-1007","id":"f-01m4b9v1f48khxymsq4s8ntbem","machine_written":true,"names":["Murmansk region","Irkutsk region"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://runews24.ru/murmansk/05/10/2026/inostrannyie-turistyi-stali-sprashivat-o-chume-pered-poezdkami-v-murmanskuyu-oblast"],"status":"reported","text":"The Murmansk region was not connected to the described case in Irkutsk region."}],"first_report":"2026-10-05T18:45:00Z","id":"e-1007","linked_to_siberian_outbreak":true,"links":[],"reports":1,"title":"Foreign tourists have started asking about plague before trips to the Murmansk region","url":"https://plaguenews.com/id/e-1007"}}