The WHO has asked Russia to explain a suspected Black Death plague outbreak in Irkutsk after reports of a second death (Credit: Photo owned by the Presidential Press and Information Office Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation / Wikimedia Commons)
The World Health Organisation has asked Russian authorities for more information after a laboratory worker died from severe pneumonia in Irkutsk, Siberia.
WHO is also seeking clarification about reports of a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause.
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