WHO Presses Russia Over Lab Worker's Death, Possible Plague
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The World Health Organization and US officials are demanding more information from Russia about the death of Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old lab worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia. Russian authorities deny she died of plague, saying she had pneumonia of unknown origin, and have dismissed reports of a second infection.
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