Experts say pneumonic plague is treatable with antibiotics

• The hospital where Daria Shipilova with pneumonic plague was treated was placed under quarantine.
• A local aluminium factory made masks mandatory for its workers.
• A large public event in Irkutsk was cancelled.
• Nearly 200 people were placed under observation in Irkutsk region after the death.
• Daria Shipilova was taken to hospital in late September and died three days later in Shelekhov.
• Reports said the death occurred on the night of 2 October; BBC (🇬🇧) could not confirm this. Read with skepticism: unnamed source

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