Rospotrebnadzor said Darya Shipilova, 28, died of "pneumonia of unknown aetiology" with no links to her work at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, but imposed quarantine on her contacts, confined 60 colleagues inside the facility and restricted access to hospitals including a maternity ward.
World Health Organization detects no sign of further outbreak since Darya Shipilova died last week The World Health Organization has said the risk of an epidemic in Russia is low after the sudden death of a lab technician who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia. Darya Shipilova, who was 28, died last week, two days after falling ill. Russian media reports suggested she may have become infected after an…
Russian authorities continue to attribute Darya Shipilova's death to pneumonia of unknown aetiology and deny any plague cases, dismissing reports of a second suspected case as 'false information'. Quarantine and confinement measures for contacts and colleagues remain in place, while the WHO assesses epidemic risk as low and, together with Western governments, presses Moscow for more transparency.
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Reports emerged of a second suspected plague case that Russian authorities dismissed as false information, while the WHO joined Western governments in pressing Moscow for more transparency.
World Health Organization detects no sign of further outbreak since Darya Shipilova died last week The World Health Organization has said the risk of an epidemic in Russia is low after the sudden death of a lab technician who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia. Darya Shipilova, who was 28, died last week, two days after falling ill. Russian media reports suggested she may have become infected after an…
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