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Received — 7 October 2026 ⏭

A Lab Worker’s Death Is Raising Plague Fears in Russia. What Do Experts Want to Know?

✇NYT: Science
By: K. R. Callaway
8 October 2026 at 11:09
Missing details about the death of a lab worker, including the cause, are worrying scientists.

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Russian health officials have not linked the death of a lab worker to infection with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.

Russia Says It Found No ‘Emergency’ in Plague Lab

✇NYT: Science
By: Paul Sonne
7 October 2026 at 14:20
New information around the death of a lab worker, including a statement that she had been vaccinated against the plague, came as U.S. officials demanded more data.

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The entrance to the grounds of the anti-plague institute in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. An employee of the institute died of a mysterious pneumonia.
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