Russia Calls Second Plague Case Reports False as WHO, EU and U.S. Press for Answers on Irkutsk Lab Death
Nature World News | 09.10.2026 21:00
Russia on Wednesday dismissed reports of a second suspected plague case at a Siberian research institute as false, even as the World Health Organization, the European Union and the United States said they still lack the information needed to judge the risk. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said most media reporting on the situation was false and urged Russians to rely only on statements from Rospotrebnadzor, the country's public health watchdog, Euronews reported.
