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Plague reported to have killed Russian lab worker rarest but most severe

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Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia from an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week.

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