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Story summary
- President Vladimir Putin confronts a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak after a lab worker died in Irkutsk.
- 28-year-old Daria Shipilova died of severe pneumonia after allegedly breaking a plague test tube.
- Shelekhov hospital was quarantined and about 200 contacts placed under observation.
- Governor Igor Kobzev held an emergency FSB meeting and urged calm.
- Chief sanitary doctor Anna Popova flew from Moscow to coordinate containment.