Asia-Pacific / Russia · Science & Health

Russian lab worker's death sparks plague concerns in Siberia

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 26m ago
Closed
Outlets: 156
Regions: 5
Countries: 70
Languages: 28

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Infobae, 4 Oct, 23:26 UTC.
Second country: Ukraine, with Ukrainska Pravda.
Second region: Europe, with Ukrainska Pravda.
Fastest hour: +12 outlets from 5 Oct, 13:32 UTC.
Last article: 156 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 70 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

22%16%44%

Africa 13 outlets · 8 countries · 8%
Americas 34 outlets · 14 countries · 22%
Asia-Pacific 25 outlets · 15 countries · 16%
Europe 69 outlets · 26 countries · 44%
Middle East 15 outlets · 7 countries · 10%

First movers

Infobae 4 Oct, 23:26 UTC
Ukrainska Pravda +28m
Fox News +40m
Times of India +4h 30m
Al Jazeera +4h 41m

Last to join

Perfil 6 Oct, 22:36 UTC
NZ Herald 6 Oct, 21:21 UTC
Observador 6 Oct, 20:03 UTC
Arab News 6 Oct, 19:13 UTC
Thairath 6 Oct, 18:42 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Russian lab worker dies after plague release in Siberia, 2 to 5 Oct 2026, 45 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 156 outlets in 70 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 156 outlets, 4 state-owned, 15 public-service, 137 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 8: Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 14: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 15: Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 26: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Infobae, 4 Oct 2026, 23:26 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 23:30 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:53 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 Asia-Pacific, 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: 1.91, 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.
Chain: Continues Russian lab worker dies after plague release in Siberia. Continued by В РФ прибирають з заяв згадки про чуму та змінюють причину смерті науковиці, - Newsweek. Merged from 2 stories Russian plague laboratory worker dies in Siberia quarantine; Suspected pneumonic plague case reported 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.
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 5 33.92 109 59 107 59 4.1

6 Oct 2026 28 17.68 155 70 81 49 4.6

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Started 4 Oct, 23:30 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 04:53 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 156 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
5 Oct 2026	5	33.92	109	59	107	59	4.1
6 Oct 2026	28	17.68	155	70	81	49	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 156 outlets

Africa 13 outlets

Americas 34 outlets

Asia-Pacific 25 outlets

Europe 69 outlets

Middle East 15 outlets