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UN health agency wants more details from Russia on suspected pneumonic plague case

ABC News International · October 7, 2026 at 5:46 PM

UN health agency wants more details from Russia on suspected pneumonic plague case

A top official with the World Health Organization says the U.N. health agency doesn’t know how a lab employee in Siberia died amid concerns about plague

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