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The US and Russia have each offered to help each other tackling infectious diseases.
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Fears that the death may have been caused by pneumonic plague has prompted calls for more transparency from Russia.
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.
Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what made officials think these were needed at all?