🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Russian authorities have quarantined about two dozen people and are monitoring hundreds more after a 28-year-old lab worker at a Siberian plague research institute died from a mysterious illness.
MORE: The cause of death has not been confirmed, and testing is underway.
VIDEO: Passengers arriving in Moscow from Irkutsk are undergoing mass temperature checks due to the risk of a plague outbreak. Russian authorities are trying to downplay the situation, but the tightened sanitary controls suggest growing concern over a potential spread.
U.S. RESPONSE: The U.S. State Department is in direct contact with Russia as officials seek more information.
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