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url: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/has-plague-returned-to-siberia-panic-in-russia-after-death-of-lab-worker/ar-AA2dyKBR
captured_at: 2026-10-04T16:52:41.470Z
title: Has plague returned to Siberia? Panic in Russia after death of lab worker

[excerpt stored when first read on 2026-10-04T16:04:13.841Z]
A female staff member at an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk region who died amid rumours of a "black death" outbreak was diagnosed with "pneumonia of unknown origin". Rospotrebnadzor insists that ...