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Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague, 200 under observation
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A lab worker in Russia has died of suspected plague, and around 200 people who may have been exposed have been placed under medical observation. The suspected form, pneumonic plague, is caused by the same bacterium as bubonic plague and can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets, raising concern about a possible outbreak.
Why now: The potential human-to-human spread of a deadly disease after a lab incident is raising pandemic fears.
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