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Russia’s plague lab worker death: Why is everyone so freaked out?

The death of the worker from the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has stirred fears worldwide.

9 October 2026 at 13:35Reading time: 1 min0 comments

Russia’s plague lab worker death: Why is everyone so freaked out?

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A full week after the death of the worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East, officials still have not specified the underlying illness that killed her, saying only it was “pneumonia of unknown origin.”Tatyana Makeyeva / AFP via Getty

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