Pneumonic plague case in Russia raises questions: How it spreads and what Indians should know

A rare respiratory infection is drawing attention, but experts say the real differences may be more important to considerHundreds have been quarantined after a 28-year-old laboratory technician reportedly died of pneumonic plague in the Siberian region of Irkutsk in Russia, according to Moscow Times report. Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring republic of Buryatia, told the independent news outlet that the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.