Following Russia plague scare, India put its national laboratory network on alert, stocks adequate life-saving antibioti

India has alerted its national diagnostic laboratory network and state-level reference laboratories following reports of a laboratory worker's death in Russia after suspected pathogen exposure.

India is reviewing global epidemiological updates and considers the risk of domestic transmission to be negligible at present, one of the officials said. The country has maintained plague surveillance protocols since the 1994 outbreak in Surat, Gujar... [4048 chars]