2026-10-09
29 分钟There's an eerie familiarity to a medical story unfolding in Russia right now.
A report of an illness at a lab that studies a deadly infectious disease,
a government that doesn't have the best track record when it comes to transparency,
questions about whether it could put the rest of the world at risk.
We've heard this story before,
but this time, it isn't about Covid.
We turn now to that troubling news out of Siberia today,
the death of a Russian lab worker at an institute
focused on the plague, that notorious
Russian officials say that it was pneumonia.
U.S. officials? Well, they're not so sure.
They have
Around 200 people were q- quarantined in the wake of the woman's death,
although the authorities say none are displaying any symptoms.
Unconfirmed reports suggest she may have been exposed to plague.
The Russian authorities deny that,
and they insist there's no risk of an epidemic.
Still, that hasn't stopped the online speculation and alarm.
From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redman in London.
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