Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague in Siberia; US monitoring case
- A Russian agency links the lab worker’s death to ‘pneumonia of unknown’ origin.
- An employee of a Russian plague research institute in the remote Siberian region of Irkutsk has died of a suspected pneumonic plague infection, regional officials have said, even as dozens of others have been placed under quarantine.
- Alexei Tsydenov, the governor of the Buryatia region, said in a post on his Telegram channel on Saturday that a woman in the neighbouring Irkutsk region had “died, maybe of the plague”.
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- A Russian agency links the lab worker’s death to ‘pneumonia of unknown’ origin.
- An employee of a Russian plague research institute in the remote Siberian region of Irkutsk has died of a suspected pneumonic plague infection, regional officials have said, even as dozens of others have been placed under quarantine.
- Alexei Tsydenov, the governor of the Buryatia region, said in a post on his Telegram channel on Saturday that a woman in the neighbouring Irkutsk region had “died, maybe of the plague”.
Sources: Al Jazeera