Uzbekistan raises sanitary readiness after reported plague case in Russia (🇺🇿)

• Confirmed Uzbekistan's Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being and Public Health (🇺🇿) raised readiness of its sanitary and epidemiological services. per Uzbekistan's Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being and Public Health (🇺🇿)¹ 1
  • Confirmed Measures aim to prevent possible importation and spread of plague. per Uzbekistan's Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being and Public Health (🇺🇿)¹ 1
• Uzbekistan (🇺🇿) acted after reports of a suspected plague case in Shelekhov, Irkutsk region.¹ 1
• Uzbek specialists are monitoring the situation using Russian official data and WHO (🇺🇳) data. per the outlets, naming no source¹ 1
• Russian media reported a 28-year-old female laboratory worker died on the night of 2 October at the Shelekhov district hospital (🇷🇺). per Russian media outlets (🇷🇺)¹ 1
  • About 200 people were placed under medical observation after the death. per the outlets, naming no source¹ 1
  • Daria Shipilova in Russia's Irkutsk region worked at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute (🇷🇺). per unnamed sources Read with skepticism: unnamed source¹ 1
• Uzbekistan (🇺🇿) is analysing laboratory confirmation, the possible source and mechanism of infection, Daria Shipilova's movements and Daria Shipilova's contacts.¹ 1
• No official confirmation of the plague diagnosis or of the circumstances of the possible infection has been issued. per the outlets, naming no source¹ 1

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• Uzbekistan tightens sanitary controls after reports of a possible plague case in Russia1news.az (🇦🇿) · 3 Oct 2026, 16:50