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A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has fallen ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens of people and the head of Russia’s health watchdog to fly to the Irkutsk region.
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Dozens quarantined in Russia as plague lab worker dies

Russian authorities have quarantined part of a hospital and are monitoring contacts of a plague research institute worker in Siberia who died.

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