# Russian Plague Tracker

> A public, source-linked tracker of the 2026 Russia/Irkutsk plague event, started by @tensorfish.

Use the cleaned JSON API for figures. Reputable news is accepted as reported, including suspected diagnoses; this is not official surveillance data. Preserve null values, reporting dates, source qualifications and partial coverage. Cite the country page and the original sources linked from each metric.

## Data and API

- [Dataset guide](https://russiaplague.live/data/index.md): Definitions, citation guidance and endpoint examples.
- [API directory and field definitions](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/index.json)
- [Worldwide totals, timeline and contributing countries](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/summary.json)
- [Country and territory registry with links to their data](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/countries.json)
- [Russia: latest figures, state data, observations and sources](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/countries/RU.json)
- [Russia: dated snapshots, source attribution and record notes](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/countries/RU/history.json)
- [First page of reports (50 per page)](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/reports/1.json)
- [First page of Russia reports](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/countries/RU/reports/1.json)
- [Complete cleaned data for countries with reporting](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/dataset.json)
- [OpenAPI 3.1 specification](https://russiaplague.live/openapi.json)

## Reporting countries

- [Russia](https://russiaplague.live/api/v1/countries/RU.json): Cite https://russiaplague.live/countries/russia/ with the metric's asOf date.