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International concern has grown over a suspected plague case in Russia's Irkutsk region after lab worker Darya Shipilova died at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. Russian authorities said checks were complete and attributed her death to community-acquired pneumonia, declaring an 'all-clear,' but have not definitively ruled out plague. The US Embassy urged citizens to leave Russia, President Trump said he would call Putin for information and questioned a bioweapons link, and the EU's Health Security Committee as well as Mongolian and Chinese authorities sought further details, even as locals in Irkutsk largely dismissed the story as background noise.