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A suspected plague case in Russia. In early October 2026 a laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute in the Irkutsk region died, and close to 200 people were put under medical observation. The thread follows the case, what Russian authorities say about it, and how health agencies and other governments respond. A headline lands here when the suspected case or the response to it is the story.
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