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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sri_Sampath" data-source="post: 31638744" data-attributes="member: 264139">There is currently a concern about a possible plague (Yersinia pestis) case in Siberia, Russia, but it is important to distinguish a suspected case from a confirmed community outbreak.A 28-year-old laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died after developing severe pneumonia. � AP News Around 200 contacts have been placed under medical observation/quarantine as a precaution. �ReutersRussian health authorities have not confirmed that she had plague; they currently describe the illness as pneumonia of unknown cause and report no evidence of a laboratory accident or new plague infections among contacts. � Reuters WHO describes plague as treatable with antibiotics, and modern outbreaks are generally controllable with prompt diagnosis and appropriate precautions. �World Health Organization.There have also been confirmed plague cases in Mongolia earlier this year, where plague is endemic, but that is a different situation from the current Siberian incident. �TNAQAFor Sri Lanka: I don't find evidence in the current sources of a plague outbreak in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka does have active disease surveillance, including event-based surveillance for unusual infectious-disease signals. �World Health OrganizationChat GPT</blockquote>

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