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Russia has detected no health issues or dangerous micro-organisms after tracing all contacts of a woman who reportedly died of plague, the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk region said Thursday. Russia has not confirmed the woman died of plague, and Governor Igor Kobzev said in his statement she had contracted "community-acquired pneumonia".
The suspicious death last week of a worker at a research lab in Siberia that has fueled global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague is just the latest example of how Russia manages the official narrative. The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents – from industrial disasters to health emergencies, as FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains.
The death of a 28-year-old woman in the Russian region of Siberia turned the alarm on the possibility of a pulmonary plague. While WHO claims that it does not have a "complete vision" of suspected pathogen leakage, the Russian authorities have conducted an epidemiological investigation and implemented preventive measures. In the # InvitadoDelDiaF24 we spoke with former WHO Health Systems Director Daniel López Acuña to understand the details of the case and the risk of contagion. "There is no high risk of spread or an epidemic outbreak," says López. "This is not in
A top official with the World Health Organization said Wednesday it doesn’t know how a lab worker in Siberia died, and she urged Russia to provide more information about a case that prompted global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis reports.
Nearly 200 people were placed under medical observation earlier this week in Russia's Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia over suspected exposure to plague.
"We cannot make an exhaustive risk assessment," says its Director General in reference to the opacity of Moscow, which arouses speculation about the origin of the infection
The Russian health authorities and the World Health Organization are investigating a possible case of pneumonic plague in Siberia, after a worker from a specialized infectious disease institute died after developing severe pneumonia. Although several media have reported a possible infection of the bacteria, the Russian authorities point out that the cause of death has not yet been officially confirmed and that the evidence is ongoing. However, 200 people have been quarantined.
The World Health Organization joined Western leaders on Wednesday in urging Russia to share more information about what killed a plague institute worker in Siberia as reports emerged of a second suspected case. The Kremlin said Moscow had shared what it knew and accused the media of spreading "false information".
The death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked online panic about a ‘plague’, despite the WHO assessing the public health risk in Russia as low. Unverified claims about how she became ill, including a laboratory accident involving a test tube, are circulating online. Misleading posts and out-of-context videos have also fuelled speculation and fear. Vedika Bahl goes through them, and what we know, in Truth or Fake.
The death of a Russian laboratory worker investigating the plague has raised questions about the disease.
Dozens of people have been quarantined over a suspected case of the plague in Russia’s Siberia.
Plague is still endemic to Siberia, the location of the first known prehistoric human outbreak.
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BBC Verify looks into the death of a woman linked to plague lab in Siberia.
The United States and Russia closely monitor a possible case of pulmonary plague after a researcher at an infectious disease institute developed pneumonia of unknown origin and died from the disease. Despite the alarm, the Kremlin made a call to calm down.
Russian authorities quarantine hospital, monitor 200 contacts after suspected pneumonic plague death in Siberia.
Donald Trump says the US was looking "very strongly" at the case of a lab technician who died at a research centre in Siberia.
Moscow on Monday downplayed reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, stressing that post-mortem tests had not detected the disease, while Washington said it was closely monitoring the situation. Reports on Friday that plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm. FRANCE 24's August Hakansson reports.
Health authorities maintain that the investigator died of pneumonia of unknown cause
The death of a worker at a Pestilence Institute in Siberia turned the alarms on the possibility of a pulmonary plague, while Russia tries to contain the speculations and claims that the analyses did not detect the bacteria. The European Commission follows the case "very closely" and maintains contacts with the European health authorities, although there is no confirmation of an outbreak in the Irkutsk region at present.
