HealthRussia plague lab death ‘doesn’t add up’: What doctors know so far

A 28-year-old laboratory researcher at Russia’s Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute died from pneumonia of an “unknown” origin. Several others are quarantined in Siberia. Rospotrebnadzor has played down a connection between her death and her work, but the case has raised questions about the form of plague that causes pneumonia.