The World Health Organisation Has Now Weighed In On 'Plague' Reports In Russia

Russia has said there’s no case of plague. But the health body is seeking more answers.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Russian health authorities have reported that “no case of plague” has been registered in Irkutsk Oblast, where a lab technician recently died from a mysterious illness.

The 28-year-old laboratory technician worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and died last week after being diagnosed with pneumonia of an “unknown” origin, according to Russia’s infectious disease agency, Rospotrebnadzor.

News reports suggested local hospitals had been put under quarantine measures and all of the technician’s recent contacts were being tested as part of “anti-epidemic........

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