Oct 10 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Saturday that Russia’s state health regulator confirmed the death of a lab worker at a plague research facility in Siberia and had informed the WHO that no case of plague had been registered.
A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances on October 2, prompting authorities to quarantine about 200 people and causing public health fears on social media.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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