{"id":243228,"date":"2026-10-07T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/siberia-plague-outbreak-is-an-isolated-incident-virologist-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:49:01","slug":"siberia-plague-outbreak-is-an-isolated-incident-virologist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/siberia-plague-outbreak-is-an-isolated-incident-virologist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Siberia plague outbreak is an ‘isolated incident’, virologist says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst says that while people may think of plague as \u201csomething medieval\u201d, cases are reported every year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar. However, he says the laboratory link makes this incident \u201ca little more serious\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst says that while people may think of plague as \u201csomething medieval\u201d, cases are reported every year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar. However, he says the laboratory link makes this incident \u201ca little more serious\u201d. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":243229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}