Russia reports a worker at a Siberian plague institute got pneumonia from an unknown cause and died

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an "unknown" cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week.
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