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EU monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia

Rank
Running
15h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
5

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INTLPolitico Europe International · English 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Polski (2) · Latviešu (1) · Română (1) · Русский (1) · +3 languages

Read at Politico Europe

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 16 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Politico Europe, 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC.
  2. Second region: Europe, with Onet.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC.
  4. Second country: Ukraine, with Ukrainska Pravda.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

17 of 17 hours

Earlier Later

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

14%72%14%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 72%
  • International 1 outlet · 14%

First movers

  1. INTLPolitico Europe 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC
  2. Onet +52m
  3. Wirtualna Polska +2h 58m
  4. Ukrainska Pravda +3h 35m
  5. TVNET +4h 56m

Latest arrivals

  1. Digi24 5 Oct, 20:02 UTC
  2. Tengrinews 5 Oct, 16:35 UTC
  3. TVNET 5 Oct, 15:44 UTC
  4. Ukrainska Pravda 5 Oct, 14:23 UTC
  5. Wirtualna Polska 5 Oct, 13:45 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Kazakhstan. Europe 4: Latvia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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
English, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Politico Europe, 5 Oct 2026, 10:47 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 20:02 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 Europe, Russia. 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
1.29, as of now. 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.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 164 5.05 7 6 7 6 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 11:00 UTC · Updated 20:02 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Tengrinews Kazakhstan 5 Oct, 16:35 UTC
    Евросоюз отреагировал на возможную вспышку легочной чумы в России

Europe 5 outlets

  • Digi24 Romania 5 Oct, 20:02 UTC
    UE urmărește cu atenție posibila apariție a ciumei în Rusia: „Suntem mult mai bine pregătiți de eventuale pandemii”
  • TVNET Latvia 5 Oct, 15:44 UTC
    EK ļoti uzmanīgi seko līdzi iespējamajam pneimoniskā mēra gadījumam Krievijā
  • Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine 5 Oct, 14:23 UTC
    European Commission monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 5 Oct, 13:45 UTC
    Widmo dżumy po incydencie w Rosji. Bruksela natychmiast reaguje
  • Onet Poland 5 Oct, 11:39 UTC
    Podejrzenie dżumy w Rosji stawia UE w stan gotowości. "Jesteśmy w kontakcie z ekspertami"

International 1 outlet

  • INTLPolitico Europe International 5 Oct, 10:47 UTC
    Suspected plague in Russia puts EU on alert
Read at Politico Europe

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