HealthRussian officials urged residents to avoid town amid suspected plague death, then deleted post
Officials in Baikalsk, in Russia’s Irkutsk region, urged residents not to travel to Shelekhov after reports that hospital patient Daria Shipilova may have died of pneumonic plague. The post was deleted two hours later. Authorities have not confirmed the cause, describing it only as a suspected case of an “especially dangerous infection,” while residents bought antibiotics amid rumors.
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Russian officials urged residents to avoid town amid suspected plague death, then deleted post