Emily BlumenthalDaily Telegraph UK·5 Oct, 2026 02:15 AM3 mins to readRussian media have reported that the disease is pneumonic plague, one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Photo / Getty ImagesA researcher in Siberia has reportedly died of a disease suspected to be a form of plague released by a laboratory accident. Russian authorities are responding to the incident at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East in Shelekhov, a city just west of Irkutsk near the
Russian researcher ‘dies of plague released by lab accident’
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