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A regional disease control and prevention center in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, on Monday activated the “plague risk prevention” protocol, the Chinese government newspaper Global Times reported, citing a statement from the center. Hulunbuir is a region in northern China that borders Russia. Pneumonic plague is endemic in Siberia. China has not reported any “human plague” cases in Hulunbuir since 1927, when it was first reported there. The center hopes to keep it that way.
The announcement was unexpected, coming just days after Russia announced that all contact tracing and monitoring of individuals who had come into contact with the suspected plague case had been completed, and that there had been no further cases of the disease in the affected area. The Chinese announcement conflicts with the Russian announcement and does not address the reason why the CDC of Hulunbuir implemented public health measures days after Russia announced that all contact tracing had been completed. In the announcement, the CDC of Hulunbuir refers to the Shipilova case as the reason for implementing the “plague risk prevention” protocol.
According to local media, Daria Shipilova, 28, from Irkutsk, Siberia, died from pneumonia of an unknown origin in early October. So far, the Russian authorities have failed to explain what killed a healthy young woman. Shipilova worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute.
As for the report about Daria breaking a test tube or a vial with a pathogen in it prior to her death, this information is false, Russian authorities said. It is still unknown what exactly killed a healthy 28-year-old woman from Irkutsk.
Reports from the Chinese health commission say that residents traveling to Russia are advised to exercise due care. Health authorities however believe that the possibility of a plague outbreak in the region is low and pneumonic plague can for the most part be treated with antibiotics. In Hong Kong, South China Morning Post reports that the health authorities are “stepping up health surveillance” but so far, there is no evidence of any cases of plague, or even of cases of pneumonia, having been brought from Russia in recent times.
As concerns over the potential outbreak of plague are spreading abroad, the Russian media oversight agency Roskomnadzor announced on October 8 that it would start monitoring media outlets for spreading fake news about plague outbreak. However, the agency failed to provide any further information on the matter. All additional questions were referred to Rospotrebnadzor which announced on Thursday that the matter was over.
As reported by Breitbart News earlier today, contact tracing of individuals who were in contact with 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, who died of the alleged pneumonic plague in a local hospital in the Russian city of Irkutsk in Siberia on October 8, 2026, has been completed by Russian authorities, and allegedly no other cases of the plague have been found among her associates. In related news, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), “Russia has denied an outbreak, but WHO needs more information,” said outgoing WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a statement released last week.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), which suffered greatly during the 2020 global health crisis caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, quickly sprang into action to verify Russia’s claims of an ended outbreak. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is soon leaving his position, wrote a statement last week stating that although the Russian government had claimed that there was an ended outbreak of plague, they had not provided the W.H.O. with enough information to verify this and therefore it cannot be concluded that the risk has passed.
