The White House is monitoring a suspected plague outbreak in Russia.
A suspected dangerous infection was released in a laboratory accident at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk, Siberia. One laboratory worker died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of "unknown" origin. Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian state agency handling infectious disease, says it remains unclear what was released. Russian authorities are responding.
Russian state media TASS.