Published October 9, 2026 · Category: News

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A woman wearing a face mask walks past the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, founded in the 1930s to monitor strains of dangerous pathogens.

A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come.

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(Image credit: Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP)

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Originally published at www.npr.org.

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