Plague tracker,
live on one globe.
Where plague is spreading, what changed and how fast it is moving. Avos reads the world's health agencies and local press around the clock and tells you, in plain words.
No plague found in Irkutsk; China tightens border surveillance, while Madagascar reports four cases.
No plague found in Irkutsk; China tightens border surveillance, while Madagascar reports four cases.
A laboratory worker at an Irkutsk antiplague institute died of pneumonia on October 2. Russian authorities reported no evidence of plague or other high-threat pathogens after contact tracing and testing. China has strengthened surveillance at its Manzhouli border crossing.
Madagascar has reported four confirmed plague cases since late July and five suspected cases detected last week. About 200 contacts received preventive treatment, while officials began insecticide spraying and hygiene campaigns.
Human cases reported worldwide, per month
Plague, as it happened.
October 2026
- 16FriChina strengthened disease surveillance at the Manzhouli crossing after the unexplained death of an Irkutsk laboratory worker.RussiaThis week
- 16FriMadagascar reported four confirmed plague cases since late July and five suspected cases detected last week.MadagascarThis week
- 10SatWHO said no plague was registered in Irkutsk, contacts remained asymptomatic, and there was no evidence of ongoing transmission.RussiaThis week
- 5MonThe US says it is ready to help Russia respond in Siberia.Russia
- 2FriNearly 200 people under observation in Irkutsk.Russia
September 2026
- 29TueRussia tells WHO no contacts have plague. WHO: risk to the public low.Russia
August 2026
- 4TueA plague scare closes a Russia-Mongolia border crossing.Russia
July 2026
- 28TueA 15-year-old dies of bubonic plague in Gobi-Altai, Mongolia.Mongolia
Plague, in brief.
Watch- Pathogen
- Yersinia pestis
- Spreads by
- Bites of fleas from infected rodents such as marmots. The pneumonic form spreads between people by coughing.
- Incubation
- 1 to 7 days, as little as 1 to 3 for pneumonic plague.
- Treatment
- Common antibiotics cure it when started early.
- Where it lives
- Rodent reservoirs in Congo, Madagascar, Peru, Mongolia, China, Central Asia and the western US.
- 1. RodentsMarmots, rats and ground squirrels keep it between outbreaks.
- 2. FleasFleas that fed on a sick animal carry it on.
- 3. A biteBubonic plague: swollen glands, cured by early antibiotics.
- 4. Cough to coughIn the lungs it turns pneumonic and spreads between people.
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