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Russian hospitals shut after lab technician's plague death

Original: JUST NOW: Russian authorities have quarantined hundreds of people and shut several hospitals after a 28-year-old lab tec

Russian authorities have quarantined hundreds of people and closed several hospitals after a 28-year-old lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia died. The death is reportedly linked to a broken test tube containing plague bacteria. Emergency measures are underway in the region as officials work to contain any possible spread of the infection.

Why now: Reports of a plague-related death and quarantine in Russia are breaking and raising fears of a possible outbreak.

Irkutsk Anti-Plague InstituteRussiaIrkutskSiberia

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