<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"><url><loc>https://www.healthbeat.org/2026/10/06/russia-plague-lab-researcher-death-raises-lab-accident-concerns/</loc><lastmod>2026-10-07T00:22:43.807Z</lastmod><changefreq>always</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Healthbeat</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-10-07T00:22:43.807Z</news:publication_date><news:title><![CDATA[Russian plague lab worker’s death raises public health, biodefense questions amid information void]]></news:title></news:news><image:image><image:loc>https://www.healthbeat.org/resizer/v2/RVM7I6OR2FGUHDMACHS2JE4SKI.jpg?auth=5e53e10d771106840f9bf02f820b2e3afc52439f393eeefb2811955ab4e14b66&amp;smart=true&amp;width=2503&amp;height=1669</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[A maintenance worker walks out of the headquarters of Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow on October 5, 2026. Russian officials downplayed reports that a laboratory technician in Siberia had died of plague, insisting the situation was under control and that post-mortem tests had not found traces of the disease.]]></image:caption></image:image></url></urlset>