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Some of you might remember hantaflow, the hantavirus tracker I posted here a few months ago. Last week a lab technician at the anti-plague institute in Irkutsk, Siberia died of a severe pneumonia, and since then the news is all over the place. Telegram says pneumonic plague from a broken test tube, the Russian health authority says "pneumonia of undetermined etiology", and stuff like "five hospitals quarantined for three weeks" gets copied everywhere. Local reporters went to those hospitals today and found no quarantine at all. So I spent today's morning building plagueintel.com. What's different this time, mostly thanks to the comments on my hantaflow posts: Last time people rightly said "signal" was confusing. Now every claim about the Irkutsk case is labelled official, reported, disputed or retracted, with the source right next to it. Signals are just headlines and the site says so. Someone warned me that Rospotrebnadzor publishes what benefits the government. So the main page literally puts their statements next to the independent reports instead of picking one. Portugal and India got wrongly marked as outbreak countries back then because their news covered other countries. Country tagging now reads the content, and a place name like Irkutsk beats a country that's only mentioned ("US monitors plague case in Siberia" is Russia, not the US). Yandex sent me 2,600 of 4,000 visitors on day two of hantaflow, so this time there's a Russian version from day one. Perfectly fits, since this actually happened in russia. What's in it: Irkutsk briefing with timeline, rumour check and contact numbers Map with 28 natural plague foci (all 11 official Russian ones) and WHO case data 2019-2025 Explainers (pneumonic vs bubonic, symptoms, treatment), history, 11 country pages News feed from ~20 sources in 7 languages, every 15 min Free JSON API + RSS again Same stack as hantaflow (Astro, Tailwind, Leaflet, node-cron worker, JSON snapshot instead of a DB, Hetzner + Traefik). One interesting problem: "plague" in Russian, German and French is also the word for swine fever (чума свиней, Schweinepest, peste porcine), so half my feed was pigs until I wrote a filter per language. Also ProMED's RSS is dead, so I'm parsing their homepage now lol. Plague is not confirmed and I'm not a doctor. The site just collects and cites what WHO, CDC and the outlets say. Roast away, especially on whether the official vs reported thing reads clearly.   submitted by   /u/MassSass99 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/5 16:44:07