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HEALTH● ELEVATED2h ago · Oct 7, 2026, 7:17 AM

Siberia plague outbreak is an 'isolated incident', virologist says

EuroNews [en] · eastern europe

Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst says that while people may think of plague as “something medieval”, cases are reported every year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar. However, he says the laboratory link makes this incident “a little more serious”.

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