Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures
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- Precautions in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine after the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague institute. Darya Shipilova, an employee at an institute in the eastern…
- The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia. Rumors and unconfirmed reports sounded a more ominous note.
- BBC Verify looks into the death of a woman linked to plague lab in Siberia.
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- A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.
- A worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has died, and nearly 200 of her contacts are under medical observation. Russian authorities deny a link to the bacterial infection. The US is monitoring the situation.
- Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
- Russian authorities quarantine hospital, monitor 200 contacts after suspected pneumonic plague death in Siberia.
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- Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an "unknown" cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week.