Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory ...

Nearly 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Irkutsk region over suspected exposure to plague, according to local media reports.

Russian health authorities say an "employee of an anti-plague institute" has been diagnosed with an unknown type of pneumonia ...

Angela Rassmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, joins Omar Jimenez to discuss what we ...

U.S. officials are tracking an unconfirmed report of a fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast while urging transparency from Moscow.

Russia launches "anti-epidemic" measures after an employee at a plague research center in the Irkutsk region of Siberia ...

Russian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.” ...

The New York Post referred to the plague as "suspected," as concerns spread that the Russian government is not being ...

The United States is monitoring reports of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in Russia after the death of a 28-year-old ...

A 28-year-old Siberian laboratory technician has died from severe pneumonia, but Russia says testing found neither plague nor ...

Hundreds of people have been placed under medical observation amid rising concerns over a suspected laboratory infection in ...

A Russian agency links the lab worker’s death to ‘pneumonia of unknown’ origin.