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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday.
Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring republic of Buryatia, confirmed that the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague. Irkutsk officials had previously described the illness only as a “particularly dangerous infection.”
Citing information from Russia’s consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor and Buryatia’s government, Tsydenov said the woman had not visited his republic and that her infection was unrelated to the region.
“There are no plague outbreaks in the republic, including in areas bordering Mongolia,” he wrote on social media.
Russia: 189 people under observation after lab worker dies of possible pneumonic plague
According to Russian media, officials in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague.
The employee, a woman in her 20s, from the of the Irkutsk anti-plague institute contracted the disease, but authorities are not clear how.
One possibility is she returned from a work trip to Buryatia, where a plague outbreak was reported on the border with Mongolia.
Another version states that she accidentally broke a test tube containing a dangerous bacterium in the lab while collecting biopsy specimens for diagnostic purposes.
She was treated for severe pneumonia at Shelekhov Hospital where she died.
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Russian scientist, 28, ‘dies from PLAGUE’ as Putin’s top doctor rushes to control outbreak with hospital on lockdown
A SCIENTIST is feared to have died from the “plague” with a hospital on lockdown amid a concerning health clampdown in Russia.
Vladimir Putinâs Chief State Sanitary Doctor Anna Popova sparked concern after she rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to Irkutsk in Siberia to take personal charge of the emergency outbreak.
Medical university graduate scientist Daria Sh, 28, is reported to have died from the deadly bubonic plague.
Russian sources claimed to have found “active natural bubonic-plague foci” in the region where the scientist had recently explored.
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