{"id":385101,"date":"2026-10-06T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/russia-plague-lab-death-doesnt-add-up-what-doctors-know-so-far\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:00:11","slug":"russia-plague-lab-death-doesnt-add-up-what-doctors-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/russia-plague-lab-death-doesnt-add-up-what-doctors-know-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia plague lab death \u2018doesn\u2019t add up\u2019: What doctors know so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/8Ek9PxisCFM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Russia plague lab death \u2018doesn\u2019t add up\u2019: What doctors know so far\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ek9PxisCFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old lab researcher at a Russian institute dedicated to studying plague and dangerous pathogens died of pneumonia of an \u201cunknown\u201d origin. The Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute operates in Siberia, where several other people are quarantined. Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that oversees infectious disease, has downplayed the link between the researcher\u2019s death and her work, but the case has prompted questions about the type of plague that causes pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Pneumonic plague is a rare, deadly lung infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Scientists consider pneumonic plague the most dangerous form of the infection. CNN speaks to medical experts on the researchers death and if there should be greater concern.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 What is the pneumonic plague?<br \/>\n1:52 Should we trust what Russia is saying about this?<br \/>\n5:13 Contradictions on information coming from Russia<br \/>\n8:04 Doctor on why the \u2018victorian plague\u2019 you may know of isn\u2019t dead<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News #russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old lab researcher at a Russian institute dedicated to studying plague and dangerous pathogens died of pneumonia of an \u201cunknown\u201d origin. The Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute operates in Siberia, where several other people are quarantined. Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that oversees infectious disease, has downplayed the link between the researcher\u2019s death and her work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-385101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia plague lab death \u2018doesn\u2019t add up\u2019: What doctors know so far | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Russia plague lab death \u2018doesn\u2019t add up\u2019: What doctors know so far for free, here on News ISC. 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