Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up

NYT World Thursday 08 October 2026, 18:09 UTC By Neil MacFarquhar 1 min read

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The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the lab.

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