Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness. The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease. The World Health Organization says the public health risk is low, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said he doesn't think there is cause for alarm. Rospotrebnadzor has played down the link between the death of the researcher — named in local media as…
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