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Thursday 8 October 2026

WHO presses Russia for answers on Irkutsk lab worker's death

Russia says an Irkutsk anti-plague institute worker who died on 2 October had pneumonia of unknown cause, not plague. WHO says it still needs answers.

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The World Health Organization is pressing Russia for answers about the death of a laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East. She died on Friday 2 October. Russian health officials say it wasn't plague. WHO says it still doesn't know what killed her.

Yellow plague bacteria clustered on curved purple spines inside a flea's gut, in a colourised scanning electron micrograph — Photo: CDC/NIAID / Public Health Image Library (public domain)

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