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Russia Moves to Tamp Down Rumors About Plague Outbreak in Siberia
5 October 2026 at 21:29
The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia.
An infectious-diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, Russia, on Monday. The mayor has urged residents “not to spread rumors.”
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