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Russia says there is no wider risk, but an expert says the coming days could offer clues about the true scale of the incident.
Moscow — When the Siberian town of Shelekhov found itself at the center of global headlines over a plague scare, residents might have hoped to be the best informed.
A mysterious death at a Russian anti-plague institute is stirring COVID-era anxiety in China, just five weeks after Chinese and Russian health officials rehearsed a response to an imported plague outbreak. Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the…