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 across Russia to be low, following reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague. A worker at the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region reportedly died of pneumonic plague, and news of the death sparked international alarm. "A woman who worked at a laboratory in Irkutsk oblast has died, and the authorities are looking into whether pneumonic plag......

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