Public health experts across the globe are on alert following reports of a suspected lab leak at a plague research facility in Russia. A 28-year-old scientist who worked there died from double pneumonia (affecting both lungs), and unconfirmed media reports suggest the infection may have been caused by accidental exposure to extremely lethal pneumonic plague.e60dc2a1-f33c-4a05-9b50-8e3e8e59762911ae2e85-de58-4d09-8e50-06c833251a7c Pneumonic plague is a rare but often rapidly fatal disease that…
