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Your questions: Russia reports a worker at a Siberian plague institute got pneumonia from an unknown cause and died
Compiled Oct 5
What actually caused the woman's pneumonia?
The reporting doesn’t answer this yet.
Was the illness linked to pneumonic plague despite official denials?
The reporting doesn’t answer this yet.
How did she contract the illness given her work at a plague research institute?
A staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute contracted pneumonia of an unknown cause
Were multiple hospitals in Irkutsk actually placed under quarantine, as one local outlet reported?
Russian state TV reported she died last week in a hospital in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk