Is Russia covering up a plague outbreak?

In Siberia last week, a Russian researcher working at an institute specialising in dangerous infectious diseases is believed to have died of unexplained pneumonia. Local media suggested it was pneumonic plague; the Kremlin continues to obfuscate. So what’s really happening? With its history of cover ups, can we trust what Russia is telling the world? And how worried should we be?

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Rhys Blakely, science editor, The Times.Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent, The Times.

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