{"as_of":"2026-10-08T18:31:21Z","run":"run-1791484281-1791484370","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","cite":"Plague News, \"Plague outbreak in Irkutsk region, Russia\", updated 8 October 2026, 18:31 UTC, https://plaguenews.com/","data":{"facts":["f-01m4e5nnrf38f6e6zkwegtz489"],"facts_detail":[{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-1207","id":"f-01m4e5nnrf38f6e6zkwegtz489","machine_written":true,"names":["Russia","WHO"],"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://www.rttnews.com/amp/3697602/no-evidence-siberia-lab-worker-died-of-plague-russia-tells-who.aspx"],"status":"reported","text":"Russia told WHO there was no evidence a Siberian laboratory worker died of plague."}],"first_report":"2026-10-08T14:10:00Z","happened_on":"2026-10-02","id":"e-1207","linked_to_siberian_outbreak":true,"links":[],"reports":19,"reports_agreeing_on_the_day":6,"reports_giving_a_day":8,"title":"Russia tells WHO it has no evidence worker died of plague","url":"https://plaguenews.com/id/e-1207"}}