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Clinical trials of the vaccine, called EpiVacCorona, could now be carried out with volunteers over the age of 60, a state register showed and the institute’s director said trials with children would begin in December, TASS reported Photo: Collected/File

Russia monitors suspected pneumonic plague case after lab worker dies

A lab worker has died in Russia's Irkutsk region and nearly 200 people are under watch, as the White House monitors the suspected plague case.

The skeleton of a teenage boy died in 14th century in Edinburgh. Photo: Collected

First evidence of Black Death found in Edinburgh skeleton

Photo: Reuters

Genome evidence points to plague in Stone Age European population crash

Mice run away on a farm in Gilgandra, New South Wales, Australia March 12, 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. MELANIE MOERIS/via REUTERS

Plague of mice hits parts of rural Australia

Jim O’Neill/ Former treasury minister, United Kingdom

Reflections on a plague year

How the search for flavour spread the plague

How the search for flavour spread the plague

A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from a plague patient, is seen in an undated photo. Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Foreign Policy

The Bubonic plague killed feudalism. Covid-19 will entrench it.

Illustrations depicting smallpox from the Imperially Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning, published in 1742. Illustration: Foreign Policy/Austrian national library

Empire’s little helper

Social distancing can reduce the spreading of coronavirus at a tremendous rate, yet we are failing to maintain the social distance that we were supposed to do. Photo: Saikat Bhadra/TBS

Surviving a plague together

A H7N9 bird flu patient is treated in a hospital in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, on Feb 12, 2017 Photo: Getty Images via Foreign Policy

The real reason to panic about China’s plague outbreak