WHO says Russia confirms death at research lab, no plague case registered

L’OMS afferma che la Russia conferma un decesso in un laboratorio di ricerca, ma non è stato registrato alcun caso di peste


A satellite image shows the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, May 8, 2025. An employee of the institute, Darya Shipilova, 28, was named by Russian media as the laboratory worker who, according to authorities, died from p (Reuters)

Oct 10 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Saturday that Russia’s state health regulator confirmed the death of a lab worker at a plague research facility in Siberia and had informed the WHO that no case of plague had been registered.

A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances on October 2, prompting authorities to quarantine about 200 people and causing public health fears on social media.

(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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