Geneva, Oct 6, 2026 (AFP) - WHO says 'low' risk in Russia following plague reports

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2026-10-06

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it deemed the public health risk in Russia to be low, following reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region. "The WHO initial risk assessment from the information available estimates the risk to be moderate to low for Irkutsk, a low risk for the Russian Federation as a whole, and very low for the WHO European region," the UN health agency's spokesman Christian......

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