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Russian Anti-Plague Institute Worker Dies; Plague Suspected, Not Confirmed by Russian Health Authorities

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published October 5, 2026
A riverside embankment and a multi-lane road in a Siberian city, with a statue near the water and a white-and-gold domed church on the right under a blue sky.

A worker at Russia’s Irkutsk anti-plague institute died; the State Department cites suspected plague, which Rospotrebnadzor and the WHO have not confirmed.

Categories Health Tags NBC News, State Department, World Health Organization

British Airways Flight BA295 Declares Emergency After Steep Descent, Returns to Heathrow

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published October 5, 2026
A British Airways Boeing 777 with its landing gear down approaches a runway under a gray sky, with other British Airways aircraft parked in the background.

British Airways Flight BA295 declared an emergency, descended to 9,000 feet and returned to Heathrow, landing 5 p.m. local time, outlets report on Oct. 5.

Categories News Tags NBC News

Shingles Drop in Younger Adults: What Epic Research Checked, and What It Did Not

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published October 2, 2026 · Updated October 5, 2026
A six-well laboratory plate of blue-stained cell cultures, the lower wells showing pale holes where varicella zoster virus formed plaques.

Epic Research found shingles rates fall in younger adults, but it compared birth cohorts, not vaccination records. Read what it checked and its caveats.

Categories Health Tags NBC News, Vaccines

Judge blocks Trump Kennedy Center name again as board votes to close, NBC reports

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 15, 2026 · Updated October 5, 2026
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, seen from across the Potomac River in Washington, on a summer day.

A federal judge blocked Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center a second time Tuesday; the board then voted to close the building for renovation, NBC reported.

Categories News Tags Lawsuits, NBC News
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