Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection
The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.
According to its website, the Anti-Plague Institute employs around 95 researchers and is a major public health facility responsible for monitoring and preventing outbreaks of high-risk bacterial and viral infections across Siberia and Russia’s Far East.
The infection in the Irkutsk region is “most likely not the plague, but even if confirmed, there will be no spread of this disease,” a former head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, said on Friday.
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