Russian officials rule out plague in Siberian case
Russian authorities have confirmed that a woman who reportedly died of plague was actually suffering from community-acquired pneumonia. Contact tracing has been completed, and officials report no further health risks or dangerous micro-organisms detected.
First reported 12 hours ago · latest update 1 hour ago
MOSCOW – 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 on Oct 8.
“Medical monitoring of all contacts has... concluded,” governor Igor Kobzev said on Russia’s state-backed social platform Max. “No health issues related to infectious disease were detected.”
Russia has not confirmed the woman died of plague, and Kobzev said in his statement she had contracted “community-acquired pneumonia”.
News outlet People Of Baikal, whose journalists have been forced into exile, broke the story on Oct 2.
They reported that the woman, a 28-year-old employee at a plague research institute in Irkutsk region, had died of plague, possibly after contracting it from a broken test tube.
The United States, the European Union and the World Health Organisation all expressed concern, calling on Russia to be transparent about the situation.
Dozens were reportedly quarantined for days amid fears of an outbreak.
“The full range of preventive measures has been completed in the region,” Kobzev said, citing information from Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.
“The sanitary-epidemiological situation in Irkutsk and Shelekhov is stable,” he added, referring to the town where the woman was reported to have died. AFP
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Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case
Russia has not confirmed plague, saying the woman had “community-acquired pneumonia”.
12 hours agoRussia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case
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".
1 hour ago · FRANCE24