Mint Explainer: What do we know about Russia’s suspected plague outbreak?
A Siberian lab worker's death has triggered hundreds of quarantines and global monitoring, though Russian officials deny a pneumonic plague outbreak and WHO assesses the risk as low.
On Friday, a laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia died under undisclosed circumstances. The death has triggered a quarantine for hundreds of people in the region. A Russian news outlet claims the woman may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube, a claim refuted by Russian health authorities.
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