“The Russian authorities said on Wednesday that a researcher at a Siberian anti-plague institute who died from a mysterious pneumonia had been vaccinated against the pathogens she worked with and that no ’emergency situations’ had occurred at the lab,” the New York Times reports.
Russia Says It Found No ‘Emergency’ in Plague Lab
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