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Australia on alert as mystery Russian plague outbreak sparks fears of lab leak

7NEWS Australia · 8 October 2026 at 11:38 pm

Australia on alert as mystery Russian plague outbreak sparks fears of lab leak

Two hundred people are in quarantine after a lab worker studying plague suddenly died in Siberia.

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