The pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacteria as the bubonic plague, and can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets.

Pneumonic plague is a serious and potentially rapidly fatal bacterial infection, but it is not the same disease as Covid-19. It is caused by Yersinia pestis, can spread through respiratory particles ...

New-Delhi: The Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a 28-year-old laboratory ...

Russia has declared a Covid-style plague quarantine in Siberia after a lab worker died and Putin's government has been accused of a cover up. | World News ...

Russia's health watchdog says tests on a Siberian anti-plague lab worker who died of unexplained pneumonia found no link to ...

A researcher at a Siberian institute studying plague has died from pneumonia, leading authorities to monitor nearly 200 ...

A Trump administration official told Axios that the White House is aware of the situation in Russia's Irkutsk region in ...

A 28-year-old lab worker, Daria Shipilova’s death at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked global plague fears, with nearly 200 contacts isolated. | World News ...

Darya Shipilova, pictured, was working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia when she was exposed to the pathogen.

Darya Shipilova, pictured, was working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia when she was exposed to the pathogen.

Vladimir Putin has been accused of covering up an extraordinary outbreak of plague in Russia which has already claimed a life ...

Russia launches "anti-epidemic" measures after an employee at a plague research center in the Irkutsk region of Siberia ...