{"as_of":"2026-10-16T12:31:11Z","run":"run-1792153871-1792148798","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","cite":"Plague News, \"Plague outbreak in Irkutsk region, Russia\", updated 16 October 2026, 12:31 UTC, https://plaguenews.com/","data":{"facts":["f-01m525yyavq6g924cqs3ktc58s"],"facts_detail":[{"credibility":{"basis":{"facts_contradicting":1},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":true,"event":"e-1479","id":"f-01m525yyavq6g924cqs3ktc58s","machine_written":true,"names":[],"per":"an unnamed official","read_with_skepticism":true,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[{"id":"unnamed","label":"Unnamed source","why":"It rests on unnamed, anonymous or unverifiable sources."},{"id":"no_evidence","label":"No evidence shown","why":"It asserts a finding (no infection, negative tests, no leak, under control) without published evidence: no test results, data or methods."},{"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."},{"id":"own_conduct","label":"Judges its own conduct","why":"It comes from a party judging its own conduct or answerable for the outcome, such as the agency or institute responsible, or a government defending its handling."},{"id":"contradicted","label":"Contradicted","why":"Other reports or facts on this page contradict it."}],"sources":["https://ua.news/en/world/u-sibiru-pomerla-pratsivnitsia-institutu-chumi-the-hindu"],"status":"reported","text":"Russian authorities investigating the Irkutsk plague outbreak said they found no evidence Daria Shipilova's illness was caused by pathogens Daria Shipilova worked with.","topic":"lab_accident"}],"first_report":"2026-10-16T10:57:54Z","id":"e-1479","linked_to_siberian_outbreak":true,"links":[],"reports":2,"title":"Russia's local state TV reports hospital quarantine and contact tracing","url":"https://plaguenews.com/id/e-1479"}}