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On November 2, Hu Ge posted an interview video on social media, discussing the sudden passing of friends and family in recent years and the health risks brought by overwork. He mentioned that he carries emergency heart pills and even carries an AED with him, sparking questions from netizens regarding potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
The World Health Organization says it has been in touch with Russian authorities and is tracking developments following the death of a female staff member at a plague research center in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.
Russian officials said that 5000 tests had been carried out on the relevant laboratory and no dangerous pathogens were found, while the World Health Organization continues to press Russia for information.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow publicly announced deaths from a rat lung disease and quarantine measures, calling on U.S. citizens to cancel trips to Russia immediately or leave as soon as possible.
Researchers died at an anti-plague research institute in Siberia, Russia, and nearly 200 people are under medical observation. Trump said at the White House that he is following the matter and is ready to provide assistance at any time.
A 28-year-old female researcher in Siberia, Russia, is suspected to have died of plague or an unknown lung disease contracted in a laboratory accident, triggering local quarantine and official post deletions and censorship.
Daria, a 28-year-old female lab technician at Russia's Irkutsk Plague Research Institute, died of severe pneumonia. The laboratory had previously handled Yersinia pestis and may have broken a test tube.
More than 60 employees of the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Irkutsk, Russia have been locked inside the facility, nearly 200 contacts are under medical observation, the hospital in Shelekhov District has been sealed off, and local judicial authorities have opened a case on suspicion of violating safety regulations.
According to data released by the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 1, the country's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, making it the fastest-spreading outbreak in history.
According to sentinel surveillance data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the 29th week of 2026 (July 13 to 19), the COVID-19 test positivity rate in China surpassed that of influenza, remaining the leading respiratory pathogen for several consecutive weeks.
On September 20, a medical dispute occurred at the Wuhan Jiangxia District First People's Hospital, where family members of a patient blocked the hospital from transferring a body and clashed with security personnel. The hospital stated that the patient's body had remained in the ICU for over 10 hours and was handled in accordance with regulations. A hospital announcement showed that the patient, surnamed Wu, died on the 19th after resuscitation efforts failed.
On September 17, residents in Guangzhou reported that a local district, in order to suppress the case data of "two fevers," sent personnel to the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital to intercept feverish residents seeking medical treatment across districts. Additionally, parents stated that because their children sought medical treatment in another district, the community organized multiple people to visit their homes for "ideological work," forcibly demanding they return to their own district for testing.
Some communities in Huizhou, Guangdong, have set up nucleic acid monitoring points due to confirmed cases of Chikungunya fever, requiring full nucleic acid testing, which has caused panic among netizens.
On September 4, 2026, a vicious attack on a doctor occurred at the Hongyan Campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Chinese Medicine. A patient with late-stage cancer hid a knife inside a banner of praise and stabbed a disabled attending physician 16 times, leaving him severely and critically injured.
Guangzhou's large-scale mosquito eradication campaign triggers public skepticism and satirical associations