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Russia responds to global alarm over possible pneumonic plague outbreak

Rank: –
Running: 41h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 9
Regions: 3
Countries: 6
Languages: 3

Merged into Russia denies second pneumonic plague case in Siberia

La Nación (AR) Argentina · Spanish 7 Oct, 14:24 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Melayu (1) · +1 language

Read at La Nación (AR)

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: La Nación (AR), 7 Oct, 14:24 UTC.
Second country: Uruguay, with El País (UY).
Second region: Europe, with La Vanguardia.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 8 Oct, 14:50 UTC.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

67%22%

Americas 6 outlets · 3 countries · 67%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%

First movers

La Nación (AR) 7 Oct, 14:24 UTC
El País (UY) +15h 41m
La Vanguardia +21h 36m
Primicias +24h 26m
Expreso (EC) +24h 50m

Latest arrivals

Infobae 9 Oct, 07:15 UTC
Utusan Malaysia 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC
Thanh Niên 8 Oct, 22:30 UTC
El Comercio (EC) 8 Oct, 22:23 UTC
Expreso (EC) 8 Oct, 15:14 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 3: Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 2: Malaysia, Vietnam. Europe 1: Spain. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Spanish, Malay, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article La Nación (AR), 7 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 07:15 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None of its own. It was merged into Russia denies second pneumonic plague case in Siberia, and the map counts it only inside that story. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged into Russia denies second pneumonic plague case in Siberia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 7 Oct, 15:30 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 07:15 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 6 outlets

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 9 Oct, 02:30 UTC
Russia tolak gesaan badan kesihatan dunia isu penyakit misteri di Siberia
Thanh Niên Vietnam 8 Oct, 22:30 UTC
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Europe 1 outlet

La Vanguardia Spain 8 Oct, 12:00 UTC
Rusia desmiente noticias de un segundo caso de peste en Siberia