Lab Worker’s Pneumonia Sparks Plague Theatrics in Siberia

In Irkutsk, a 28-year-old lab worker faced pneumonia with a flair for the dramatic. Authorities toyed with plague theories before doing a classic backtrack, leaving everyone scratching their heads. The WHO gave a thumbs-up on the health risk, while officials insist there’s no lab oopsie here. Just another chapter in a region with a history that’s wilder than a superhero movie about Soviet bio-weapons.