World Health Organization: On October 2, WHO learned through media reports that an employee of the Irkutsk Institute for Combating Plague in Russia's Siberia and Far East region died. According to reports, the patient died on September 29 after being hospitalized due to severe pneumonia. The suspected cause of death was pneumonic plague.

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