Did Russia play by the rules in reporting lab worker's death?

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A woman wearing a face mask walks past the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, founded in the 1930s to monitor strains of dangerous pathogens. Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP/via Getty Images A 28-year-old woman died in Russia last week and, since then, speculations about the case have ricocheted around the globe. The woman was a lab technician at a Russian research institute that studies the plague. As unverified rumors have circulated that she may have contracted the disease from a lab leak, President Trump, the World Health Organization and other leaders are asking for more information. A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died. Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP/via Getty Images Russia has insisted this is not a health emergency and stated that its health authorities have not found dangerous pathogens in any of the deceased woman's contacts. But there are still far more questions than answers. That uncertainty has global...

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