Moscow denies sanitary measures over plague reports

Plague is a bacterial disease that can occur in several formsRussian authorities denied Tuesday that special restrictions had been introduced over reports that a laboratory technician died of plague, even as Washington said it was closely monitoring events.Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia’s Irkutsk region, sparked alarm.