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Pulmonary fever in Siberia? Europe follows the case while Russia calls for calm

The death of a worker at a Pestilence Institute in Siberia turned the alarms on the possibility of a pulmonary plague, while Russia tries to contain the speculations and claims that the analyses did not detect the bacteria. The European Commission follows the case "very closely" and maintains contacts with the European health authorities, although there is no confirmation of an outbreak in the Irkutsk region at present.