World Health Organization says Russian lab worker’s death has not been clearly linked to plague - ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4
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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.
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