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Key details are unknown, including whether the woman, who worked at a lab in Siberia, was infected with plague at all.
A Russian lab worker’s mysterious death from suspected pneumonic plague has led to quarantines and global alarm. Here’s what health experts want you to know.
A doctor has addressed the risk to people in the UK from plague as Russia continues to study the death of a woman linked to the disease. Russian authorities say they have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee from a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia from an…