Russia Moves to Tamp Down Rumors About Plague Outbreak in Siberia
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The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia. Rumors and unconfirmed reports sounded a more ominous note.
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