Russia plague lab death reports lift QuidelOrtho with vaccine peers

 

• Unconfirmed pneumonic plague death of a Siberian anti-plague lab worker circulated Monday.
• US State Department and EU said they were monitoring the case; dozens were quarantined.
• NVAX rose about 20%, EBS 15% and MRNA 7% on the same outbreak headlines.
• QDEL, a point-of-care and molecular diagnostics firm, joined the infectious-disease bid.
• Volume ran nearly double average; no company filing or press release appeared.
• The stock faded modestly from the 15:02 high of about 15% into the close.

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