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US monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia

Rank
Running
25h
Updated
18h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
6

+0

Meduza Russia · English 5 Oct, 08:02 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Lietuvių (2) · Русский (2) · Polski (1) · Română (1) · Українська (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 26 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Tengrinews, 5 Oct, 00:20 UTC.
  2. Second country: Ukraine, with Unian.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Unian.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 05:43 UTC.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

26 of 26 hours

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

The regions

13%87%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 7 outlets · 5 countries · 87%

First movers

  1. Tengrinews 5 Oct, 00:20 UTC
  2. Unian +3h 5m
  3. Kommersant +5h 23m
  4. Lrytas +5h 57m
  5. Onet +6h 5m

Latest arrivals

  1. Meduza 5 Oct, 08:02 UTC
  2. Digi24 5 Oct, 07:46 UTC
  3. LRT 5 Oct, 07:12 UTC
  4. Onet 5 Oct, 06:25 UTC
  5. Lrytas 5 Oct, 06:17 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 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 8 outlets, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Kazakhstan. Europe 5: Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine. 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, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Tengrinews, 5 Oct 2026, 00:20 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 00:30 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 08:02 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
0.26, 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 133 5.80 8 6 8 6 4.1

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 5 Oct, 00:30 UTC · Updated 08:02 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Tengrinews Kazakhstan 5 Oct, 00:20 UTC
    Белый дом следит за ситуацией в России из-за подозрения на чуму - СМИ

Europe 7 outlets

  • Meduza Russia 5 Oct, 08:02 UTC
    White House says it’s monitoring reports of plague in Russia, ‘assessing options’
  • Digi24 Romania 5 Oct, 07:46 UTC
    Ce se știe despre ciuma din Rusia: Casa Albă comentează, Moscova tace mormântal despre situație, iar presa șterge ce a publicat
  • LRT Lithuania 5 Oct, 07:12 UTC
    Rusijoje įtariamas maro protrūkis – JAV stebi situaciją
  • Onet Poland 5 Oct, 06:25 UTC
    Biały Dom reaguje na doniesienia o dżumie w Rosji
  • Lrytas Lithuania 5 Oct, 06:17 UTC
    Po mirties nuo maro Rusijoje – Baltųjų rūmų reakcija
  • Kommersant Russia 5 Oct, 05:43 UTC
    Axios: Белый дом США следит за сообщениями о возможной вспышке чумы в России
  • Unian Ukraine 5 Oct, 03:26 UTC
    У Білому домі зробили заяву щодо спалаху чуми в Росії, – Axios
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