State department monitoring reported fatal case of pneumonic plague in Russia

Name: State department monitoring reported fatal case of pneumonic plague in Russia
Uploaded: 2026-10-05T16:37:40Z
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Description: Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. ABC News' Lama Hasan reports.

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Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. ABC News' Lama Hasan reports.

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State department monitoring reported fatal case of pneumonic plague in Russia

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