Russia says a reported second plague case is false. Two outlets reporting on the claim cite Russian authorities’ statement that the allegation is unverified or incorrect, and that it should not be treated as evidence of an additional incident.
The reports reference earlier discussion of a possible plague link to a Siberian laboratory, but they focus on Russia’s denial of the specific “second case” narrative. No additional confirmed details are provided in the supplied excerpts about who made the original allegation, where the case was said to have been detected, or what evidence Russia offers to rebut it.
As a result, the accounts largely converge on the same point: Russia rejects the claim of a second plague case and characterizes it as false. With limited information in the excerpts, the key differences across outlets relate mainly to how they frame the denial—one describing it as a second case being false, the other mentioning a purported link to a Siberian plague lab—rather than providing new, independently verified facts.
