Al Jazeera · 5 Oct 2026
Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague in Siberia; US monitoring case
A Russian agency links the lab worker’s death to ‘pneumonia of unknown’ origin. An employee of a Russian anti-plague institute in the remote Siberian region of Irkutsk has reportedly died of a suspected pneumonic plague infection, according to a United States official. “We are aware of reports of a
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