HealthRussian lab worker’s death sparks plague fears as unverified claims spread online

The death of a 28-year-old worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has triggered online panic over a possible “plague,” although the WHO rates the public-health risk in Russia as low. Unverified accounts of how she fell ill, including a supposed test-tube laboratory accident, along with misleading posts and out-of-context videos, have fueled speculation and fear.

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