A Plague Lab Worker's Death, and the Claims DW Flags as Misleading

The death of a lab worker at a plague research institute in Russia has sparked claims about a lab accident, hundreds of infections and international spread. Deutsche Welle reports that some of those viral narratives are misleading.

One confirmed death and a story about hundreds of infections are different claims, even when they travel together — and the second is what turns a death at a laboratory into an outbreak rumor.