{"as_of":"2026-10-07T14:46:24Z","run":"run-1791384384-1791384794","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","cite":"Plague News, \"Plague outbreak in Irkutsk region, Russia\", updated 7 October 2026, 14:46 UTC, https://plaguenews.com/","data":{"facts":["f-01m4b245mpj9xb79xsw5vjdky2","f-01m4b245mp303jb0qqmjhh00nn","f-01m4b245mps71gnpqamtfdzppv","f-01m4b245mpvgz5dvebn4vajf9d","f-01m4b245mpe7nky6499btbv6cm","f-01m4b245mps3jcen4y2bbd06q2","f-01m4b245mpz6747jpmmxe158vm","f-01m4b245mpf7bxvvd8fyj27hk7"],"facts_detail":[{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-802","id":"f-01m4b245mpj9xb79xsw5vjdky2","machine_written":true,"names":["Ukraine","WHO","Russia"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://zn.ua/ukr/WORLD/spalakh-chumi-u-rosiji-shcho-pro-situatsiju-v-irkurski-oblasti-ta-chi-je-zahroza-dlja-ukrajini.html"],"status":"reported","text":"Ukraine appealed to WHO over a suspected plague outbreak in Russia."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-802","id":"f-01m4b245mp303jb0qqmjhh00nn","machine_written":true,"names":["Irkutsk region"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://zn.ua/ukr/WORLD/spalakh-chumi-u-rosiji-shcho-pro-situatsiju-v-irkurski-oblasti-ta-chi-je-zahroza-dlja-ukrajini.html"],"status":"reported","text":"A 28-year-old female laboratory worker died of plague in Irkutsk region, according to media reports."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"detail_of":"f-01m4b245mp303jb0qqmjhh00nn","disputed":false,"event":"e-802","id":"f-01m4b245mps71gnpqamtfdzppv","machine_written":true,"names":["Shelekhov hospital"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://zn.ua/ukr/WORLD/spalakh-chumi-u-rosiji-shcho-pro-situatsiju-v-irkurski-oblasti-ta-chi-je-zahroza-dlja-ukrajini.html"],"status":"reported","text":"Daria Shipilova was admitted to Shelekhov hospital on 29 September with pneumonia symptoms."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"detail_of":"f-01m4b245mp303jb0qqmjhh00nn","disputed":false,"event":"e-802","id":"f-01m4b245mpvgz5dvebn4vajf9d","machine_written":true,"names":["Shelekhov hospital"],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://zn.ua/ukr/WORLD/spalakh-chumi-u-rosiji-shcho-pro-situatsiju-v-irkurski-oblasti-ta-chi-je-zahroza-dlja-ukrajini.html"],"status":"reported","text":"Daria Shipilova was connected to a ventilator after admission to Shelekhov hospital."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"detail_of":"f-01m4b245mp303jb0qqmjhh00nn","disputed":false,"event":"e-802","id":"f-01m4b245mpe7nky6499btbv6cm","machine_written":true,"names":[],"read_with_skepticism":false,"shown_status":"reported","skepticism_reasons":[],"sources":["https://zn.ua/ukr/WORLD/spalakh-chumi-u-rosiji-shcho-pro-situatsiju-v-irkurski-oblasti-ta-chi-je-zahroza-dlja-ukrajini.html"],"status":"reported","text":"Daria Shipilova died on the night before 2 October."},{"credibility":{"basis":{},"code":6,"confidence":"low","why":"not yet checked against the reports","words":"Truth cannot be judged"},"disputed":false,"event":"e-802","id":"f-01m4b245mps3jcen4y2bbd06q2","machine_written":true,"names":["The Kremlin","Rospotrebnadzor"],"read_with_skepticism":true,"shown_status":"denied","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; 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