About this site

We read what other people published — reporting, official statements, health-agency material — and write our own short, neutral summary of each item. We link to the original every time. We build explainers from WHO, CDC and peer-reviewed material so a reader who has never heard of pneumonic plague can understand the story in a few minutes.

We also publish a structured claim board: the most repeated statements about the outbreak, each with the evidence we could find and a verdict that describes that evidence. Readers can record what they think, and we publish the raw counts.

We have no reporters, no correspondents in Irkutsk, and no first-hand access to anyone involved. We cannot verify a laboratory result, interview a patient, or confirm a figure independently. Everything we publish is a summary of something someone else put on the record — with the one exception of our claim verdicts, which are our own reading of the public evidence and are labelled as such.

We do not take positions on governments, elections, sanctions or military matters, and we do not speculate about anyone's motives. Official statements are reported as facts about what was said, never framed as evidence of deception or of good faith.

How we workWe have no reporters in Irkutsk and no first-hand access. Every item below is aggregated from a named outlet or an official body, summarised in our own words, and linked to its original. We do not republish paragraphs, and we do not rank outlets.

An editorial desk, publishing under the collective byline “PneumonicPlague.news editorial desk”. We do not publish individual author names because no individual is reporting from the field. Our rules on sourcing, corrections and neutrality are published in full in the editorial policy.

The site is funded by nobody at present: there is no advertising, no sponsorship, no tracking and no analytics. Reach the desk at editor@pneumonicplague.news.