Russia dismisses reports of second plague case as โfalse informationโ
Senior WHO official urges Russia to provide more information on the suspected pneumonic plague cases.
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Senior WHO official urges Russia to provide more information on the suspected pneumonic plague cases.
The death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker at Siberiaโs Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked online panic about a โplagueโ, despite the WHO assessing the public health risk in Russia as low. Unverified claims about how she became ill, including a laboratory accident involving a test tube, are circulating online. Misleading posts and out-of-context videos have also fuelled speculation and fear. Vedika Bahl goes through them, and what we know, in Truth or Fake.
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