UN health agency wants more details from Russia on suspected pneumonic plague case

Home Health To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: An undated photo released by the Russian institute in 2019 showing workers in a lab. © The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, via AP 01:53 Issued on: 07/10/2026 - 23:24 A top official with the World Health Organization said Wednesday it doesn’t know how a lab worker in Siberia died, and she urged Russia to provide more information about a case that prompted global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis reports. Keywords for this article