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HealthAbout 200 people who had contact with the worker were quarantined as officials investigated the illnessWhat to know:The World Health Organization says Russian authorities have reported no confirmed plague cases in the Irkutsk region. A worker at a Siberian research institute that studies plague died Oct. 2 after developing pneumonia. Officials have not publicly confirmed what caused her death. People who had contact with the worker were monitored and quarantined. Russian officials said testing had not found plague among those contacts. The death has sparked comparisons to COVID-19 and speculation on social media, but there is no public evidence confirming a plague infection or a broader outbreak. The World Health Organization says Russian authorities have reported no plague cases in the Irkutsk region. The worker’s cause of death remains unclear. A worker at a Siberian research institute that studies plague died after developing pneumonia, prompting officials to monitor and quarantine people who had contact with her and renewing questions about a disease many associate with the Middle Ages. But Russian authorities have reported no plague cases in the region.

Experts from around the world, including Canada, say the scale of digital technology use by children and youth is a public health issue that needs immediate action to prevent further harm. A series of papers published by the Lancet on Sunday say the responsibility for keeping young people safe from problematic use of social media and other digital technology must shift from young people and their families to big tech companies and governments. “It’s easy to think about how technology impacts our health as being about our individual choices. And one of the things that we really want to get across in this series is that that’s not the right way to think about it,” said co-author Jay Shaw, the Canada Research Chair in responsible health innovation at the University of Toronto, in an interview. Efforts by parents, such as screen-time limits, as well as individual willpower by young people, aren’t enough to address the “digital determinants of health” that are now part of their everyday environment, the papers say. Story continues below advertisement