Pathogen Leak at Russian Plague Research Institute Leaves Researcher Dead of Unknown Pneumonia

A pathogen leak accident at a plague research institute in Russia has resulted in the death of a researcher.

Russia's state-run TASS news agency reported on the 4th local time that Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's federal consumer rights and human wellbeing watchdog overseeing infectious diseases, announced that a researcher at a plague research institute in Shelekhov, near the Irkutsk Oblast in Russia, died from pneumonia of unknown cause.

Authorities are currently conducting an investigation to identify the exact type of pathogen that was leaked.

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