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Mateo Moreno

Lab Worker Dies of Pneumonic Plague in Siberia, Prompting Mass Quarantine and Kremlin Secrecy

A woman walks a dog past the headquarters of Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow on October 5, 2026. Russian officials on October 5, 2026 downplayed reports that a laboratory technician in Siberia had died of plague, insisting the situation was under control and that post-mortem tests had not found traces of the disease. (Credit: Photo by Igor IVANKO / AFP via Getty Images)

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