Europe / Russia · Science & Health

US urges citizens to leave Russia amid pneumonic plague outbreak

Rank
Running: 29h
Updated: 7h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

Merged into US warns Americans to leave Russia over suspected plague case

Voice of America United States · English 7 Oct, 19:15 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Español (3) · +1 language

Read at Voice of America

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: G1, 6 Oct, 21:34 UTC.
Second country: Chile, with BioBioChile.
Second region: Europe, with La Vanguardia.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 10:23 UTC.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

80%20%

Americas 4 outlets · 4 countries · 80%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

G1 6 Oct, 21:34 UTC
BioBioChile +12h 49m
La Vanguardia +13h 28m
El Comercio +14h 30m
Voice of America +21h 41m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 1 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 4: Brazil, Chile, Peru, United States. 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: English, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article G1, 6 Oct 2026, 21:34 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 19:15 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 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: 0.73, 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: Merged into US warns Americans to leave Russia over suspected plague case. 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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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 22:00 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 19:15 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 4 outlets

Voice of America United States 7 Oct, 19:15 UTC
US Embassy warns Americans about suspected plague case in Russia
El Comercio Peru 7 Oct, 12:04 UTC
Embajada de Estados Unidos en Moscú advierte a sus ciudadanos sobre posible brote de peste en Rusia
BioBioChile Chile 7 Oct, 10:23 UTC
EEUU llama a sus ciudadanos a dejar Rusia por posible brote de peste neumónica: Trump llamará a Putin
G1 Brazil 6 Oct, 21:34 UTC
Peste pneumônica: EUA pedem que cidadãos deixem a Rússia 'imediatamente'

Europe 1 outlet

La Vanguardia Spain 7 Oct, 11:02 UTC
EE.UU. avisa a sus ciudadanos sobre el posible caso de peste en Siberia