Growing fears over mystery Russian illness after lab employee dies of pneumonia

By ABC News

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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 and died. ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze reports.

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