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Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up

✇NYT - Home Page
By: Neil MacFarquhar
8 October 2026 at 18:22
As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little information about potential bad news.

© Associated Press

The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the lab.

Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up

✇NYT - World
By: Neil MacFarquhar
8 October 2026 at 18:22
As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little information about potential bad news.

© Associated Press

The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the lab.
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