# Employee of Russia anti-plague institute diagnosed with ‘pneumonia’

https://mins.news/en/video/85780

- ABC News, 2026-10-05 01:00 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8wlZjWImU

> Russia has launched “anti-epidemic” measures after an employee at a plague research center in the Siberian Irkutsk region became infected with an unknown type of pneumonia.

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