Youths walk past the headquarters of Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow on October 5, 2026. Igor Ivanko, AFP
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it deemed the public health risk in Russia to be low, following reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region.
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"The WHO initial risk assessment from the information available estimates the risk to be moderate to low for Irkutsk, a low risk for the Russian Federation as a whole, and very low for the WHO European region," the UN health agency's spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press briefing.
More details to follow.
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