WHO Presses Russia Over Mysterious Death of Plague Lab Worker
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The World Health Organization is demanding answers from Russia after a 28-year-old worker at Siberia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died under suspicious circumstances. Russia insists the woman died of pneumonia of unknown origin, not plague, but has provided few details to international health officials who fear a possible second case.
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